If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish

Killing me will not end your grief. It will only create more of it.

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his objective added nobility to everything he did.

They were growing closer and closer every day, and Charlotte was finding something magical at Wildflower, something she never thought she would find again—love.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.