There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.