"The death toll [in Nicaragua] was equivalent in per capita terms to 2.25 million in the United States, greater than all wars in American history combined, including the Civil War."

He warned President Kennedy that "the distribution of land and other forms of national wealth greatly favours the propertied classes.....and the poor and underprivileged, stimulated by the example of the Cuban Revolution, are now demanding opportunities for a decent living."

The world majority "often opposes the United States on important international questions," so that we must "reserve to ourselves the power to determine" which matters fall "essentially within the jurisdiction of the United States as determined by the United States."

"If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the US does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

"Among the the most elementary of moral truisms is the principle of universality: we must apply to ourselves the same standards we do to others, if not more stringent ones. It is a remarkable comment on Western intellectual culture that this principle is so often ignored and, if occasionally mentioned, condemned as outrageous."