We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

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

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.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.