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

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

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

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

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

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

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.