A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.