The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

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