There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

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.

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.