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.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

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