Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

• Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
• One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
• Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
• Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
• Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
• Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.