I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

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.