New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.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

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.