It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

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

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.