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.

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

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 believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

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

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