We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

[The value and dignity of the individual] is threatened whenever it is assumed that individual desires, hopes and ideals can be fitted with frictionless harmon…

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily …

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distingui…

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the Amer…

'It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,' -words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Mesa should listen to the marginalized. He should be with the people, not with the empire.