Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]