When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

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.