These guarantees were not worth the paper they were written on, or the breath that uttered them. What is the position now? The CZ [Czech] Republic is being broken up before our eyes. Their gold is being stolen by the Nazis. The Nazi system is to blot out every form of internal freedom.

the most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who … lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

When Hitler began, Germany lay prostrate at the feet of the Allies. He may yet see the day when what is left of Europe will be prostrate at the feet of Germany.

No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy… So we had won after all!

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader … In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people … await the hour of liberation … That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

The war had been fought to make sure that the smallest state should have the power to assert its lawful rights against even the greatest, and this will probably be for several generations an enduring fact.

There is only one thing certain about war, that it is full of disappointments and also full of mistakes.