This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put |
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. |
Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. |
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. |
Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting, you would soon find out |
Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill |
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. |
To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed alot. |
To jaw-jaw- is always better than to war-war |
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. |
To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor. |
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. |
Two nations divided by a common language. |
Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts. |
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. |