If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

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