A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

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

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

[President Roosevelt] devised the extraordinary measure of assistance called Lend- Lease, which will stand forth as the most unselfish and unsordid financial act of any country in all history.