Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

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.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

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

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.