"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."

"Spend and be spent."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"

"I'm a man of the world, Andy. Why, I've even been to Raleigh!"

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace."

"If a man does his best, what more is there to ask for?"

"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."

"Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them."