When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.