A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!