My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

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.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.