Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.