Hope is the mainspring of life.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.