Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

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

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.