In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.