When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

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.

Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.