“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.”

“We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.”

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”