The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.