There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Perhaps no person can be a poet or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
In a disordered mind as in a disordered body soundness of health is impossible.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now after years of rebuilding our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.