Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.