I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.