“Had ten minutes conversation with Henry Morgenthau about Jewish ship in Palistine [sic]. Told him I would talk to Gen[eral] Marshall about it. He'd no business, whatever to call me. The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any judgement on world affairs. Henry brought a thousand Jews to…”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com