The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Education is the mother of leadership.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

Free men are the strongest men.