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

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

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

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.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

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