I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.