All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.