Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

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.

The absence of war is not peace.

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.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.