Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.