If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.