There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.