“History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--”

“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”

“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”

“If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

“Who can live without it?  I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”