When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.