"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]"
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."