Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Every country has the government it deserves.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.