The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

The stress stops here

For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view we were happy to see that the British Government has on its part accepted the principle of nationalization.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.