When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.