At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.