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.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

The absence of war is not peace.

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

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.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.