“Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.”

“It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.”

“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”

“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”

“All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.”

“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”

“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”