To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.