I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.