No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.