You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.