To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Raven: So Alexander, now we know what we do all day. What do you do? Alexander: I spend it thinking about you.

A majority can do anything.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

I love to spend money.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.