“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.”
“Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”
“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”
“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”
“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”
“Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.”
“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
“Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
“The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!”
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”
“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”
“Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
“It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.”
“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another”