Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.