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.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.