Brains are no substitute for judgement.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
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.