The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Pessimism never won any battle.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.