Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
Air power is the most difficult military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange.
There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it.
The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you.
It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State.
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both.
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.
You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.
You do your worst, and we’ll do our best.
I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.