This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

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.

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.

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.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.