The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.