"Americans are gathered together in communities all over the country to pay tribute to the living memory of Thomas Jefferson —one of the greatest of all democrats; and I want to make it clear that I am spelling that word ‘democrats’ with a small d."

"I learned about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk from someone who knows him very well. As I was speaking to the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Soviet Union, Litvinov, he told me that the most valuable and interesting leader in the world does not live in Europe but beyond the Straits in Ankara and that he was the President of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk."