With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.