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.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

The absence of war is not peace.