This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.