Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of mine…

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.

'It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.'

If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Say ye unto the Khwarezmians that I am the sovereign of the sunrise, and [he is] the sovereign of the sunset. Let there be between us a firm treaty of friendsh…