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

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

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

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

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

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.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.