It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.