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.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.