I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

I don't feel qualified to be president either, but I've got the job.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.