Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose