My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.