Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.