A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

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

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.