The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union,

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.