We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.