The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

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

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Success has many fathers.

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.