War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.

My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.