Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.