The ocean. . . like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.
If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
There is now doubt in our minds that Nasser, whether he likes it or not, is now effectively in Russian hands, just as Mussolini was in Hitler's. It would be as ineffective to show weakness to Nasser now in order to placate him as it was to show weakness to Mussolini.
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
What gets measured gets managed.
I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.
What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.