Chester Bowles

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

“The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.”

“In the long run, there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act upon it.”

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.”

“Scientific and technological progress themselves are not sufficient. We must learn how to use our new powers and our new wealth with a degree of responsibility and humanity which as yet we have not demonstrated.”

“Poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere.”

“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”

“Planning is the orderly foresighted dealing with the forces of the future.”

“We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away.”

“Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is the art of major public life, of politics, of leadership, of persuasion, of administration, of law in its highest sense.”