A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.