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.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.