It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.