If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.