Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.