It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

What America needs now is a drink.

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.

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.

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

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.