Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.Collection: Peace
[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.Collection: War
The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.Collection: Foundation
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.Collection: Mistake
The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.Collection: War
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.Collection: Peace