Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.