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.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

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

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

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.