"I recommended that we establish contact with [the Chinese communists]. We had established contact through a military …"

"I have known a great number of men.... I have known none who seemed more the whole man, none more finished a civilize…"

"The crime he did commit was that of practical, complicated, and nuanced thought. Though an ardent anti-communist, he …"

"Going back to Davies, at the time after the war that Davies was a member of the policy staff of the State Department,…"

"... for Davies and Service, it was the end of two brilliant careers. For the country they served, it would have even …"

"I am absolutely independent of all Legations, and refuse to take part in any intrigue, or join any party, and so I ha…"

"He [Vladimir Putin] considers this a proxy war by NATO as well right now, and frankly, in a way, it is."

"All over Russia princes are as plenty as pickpockets in London."

"Governmental prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation tha…"

"Your mission was, to be a model for all other governments and for all other less favored nations, to adhere to the mo…"