As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.
The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.
You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.
One small ball in the air. I wouldn’t believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.
We view our Nation’s strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.
The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace.
The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.
War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
You know, this is what I’ve always thought a college should look like.
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.
I don’t think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don’t need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.
Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.
The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.
American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.