We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.