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

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Unless we progress, we regress.