Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achievements of their forefathers, but must themselves renew them - We cannot escape the elementary facts of life - that for a people there is nothing for

He's going to have to placate those guys or otherwise nothing gets done.

Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.