What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

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

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

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.