I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.