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

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

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.

We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.

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.