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

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

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.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.