A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?