For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.