Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

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.