There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.

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

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.