The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.