Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.