Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.