In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.