Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

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

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.