Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.