Existing comment:
"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re."
"Gently in manner, strongly in deed."
"Because no man is really a man who has lost out of himself all of the boy, I want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot boy. Frequently, they are to be of a street car conductor or he sees himself as the town policeman, above all he may reach to a position of locomotive engineer, but always in his dreams is that day when he finally comes home. Comes home to a welcome from his own home town. Because today that dream of mine of 45 years or more ago has been realized beyond the wildest stretches of my own imagination, I come here, first, to thank you, to say the proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene..."
-- Homecoming speech, Abilene, Kansas, June 22, 1945
General:
"Humanity must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
-- Guildhall Address, London, England, June 12, 1945
President:
"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."
-- Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957 |