Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.