I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

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

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.