America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.