Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

I'm for each and against none.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.