Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.