A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

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.