Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.