Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

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

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

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

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.

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.

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.