I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.