If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

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

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.