If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.