The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

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

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

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