Don't join the book burners!

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.