One Has To Live In Washington To

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face.... The Danger Lies In Refusing To Face The Fear, In Not Daring To Come To Grips With It. If You Fail Anywhere Along The Line It Will Take Away Your Confidence. You Must Make Yourself Succeed Every Time. You Must Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

Smearing Good People Like Lauchlin Currie [former Administrative Assistant To President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss And Others Is, I Think, Unforgiveable... Anyone Knowing Mr. Currie Or Mr. Hiss, Who Are The Two People Whom I Happen To Know Fairly Well, Would Not Need Any Denial On Their Part To Know They Are Not Communists. Their Records Prove It.

I Feel Quite Sure That What The American People Lack Is Knowledge.

When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.

About The Only Value The Story Of My Life May Have Is To Show That One Can, Even Without Any Particular Gifts, Overcome Obstacles That Seem Insurmountable If One Is Willing To Face The Fact That They Must Be Overcome.