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

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

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

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.

Charm never made a rooster.

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

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.