a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."
I am willing to join in your statement on the ground that I feel about the future of the United States whenever the President starts out on his travels the way the Marshal of the Supreme Court does when he opens a session of that Court. You will recall that he ends up his liturgy by saying "God save the United States for the Court is now sitting.
Докладная записка пишется не для того, чтобы информировать её адресата, а для того, чтобы защитить её автора.
No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.