Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

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

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.

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.

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