International relations is security, it's trade relations, it's power games. It's not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia w...as pure evil. Not ethnic hatred--that's only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation ...and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concer...ning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cor...nerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world comp...osed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While ... we cannot and must not hide our concern for grave world dangers, and while, at the same time, we cannot build walls arou...nd ourselves and hide our heads in the sand, we must go forward with all our strength to stress and to strive for international peace. In this effort America must and will protect herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when... ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting t...ogether in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »