“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”

“The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.”

“Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.”

“If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.”

“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake. Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors”

“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”