Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the continental United States.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.