A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

The first twelve years are the hardest.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.