It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.