This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

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

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.