It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

Life was meant to be lived.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

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.