The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.

Yesterday December seventh 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe having surveyed a few boxes full of letters diaries bank statements and photographs that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways yet each one can be true.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle justified by exemplary conversation.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and you know said it.