We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

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.