We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."