My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

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.