A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

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.