We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

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.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Tell that to the Marines!

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.