Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.