Power Confuses Itself With Virtue

There Has Been A Strong Tradition In This Country That It Is Not The Function Of The Military To Educate The Public On Political Issues.

It's Unnatural And Unhealthy For A Nation To Be Engaged In Global Crusades For Some Principle Or Idea While Neglecting The Needs Of Its Own People.

The Soviet Union Has Indeed Been Our Greatest Menace - Not So Much Because Of What It Has Done, But Because Of The Excuses It Has Provided Us For Our Own Failures.

There Is An Inevitable Divergence Between The World As It Is And The World As Men Perceive It.

We Are Inclined To Confuse Freedom And Democracy, Which We Regard As Moral Principles, With The Way In Which They Are Practiced In America With Capitalism, Federalism, And The Two-party System, Which Are Not Moral Principles But Simply The Preferred And Accepted Practices Of The American People.