In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.