A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

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

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

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

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.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.