Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.