A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. In 2000 the United States Postal Service issued a 33¢ DistinguiClaude Pepperd Americans series postage stamp honoring Pepper.