Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.