If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.