I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.