I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?