The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.