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.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

If you are going through hell just keep going