Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.