Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.