Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

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

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.