I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.