To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.