The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

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?