Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.