I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Americans never quit.