No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.