The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us … [T]hey have, in a great measure, ceased to be an object of terror, and have become that of commiseration.

The routine dulls the terror.

..reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

there came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.

when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

Wages have increased, the cost of living has decreased. The job of every man and woman has been made more secure. We have in this short period decreased the fear of poverty, the fear of unemployment, the fear of old age; and these fears that are the greatest calamities of human kind.

Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death — the seas bear only commerce — men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…

A lot of the statements that got people in trouble seem harmless now.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.