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

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

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.

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

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

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

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.