It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

It is physically impossible to win a war by arresting an invading army and trying each of its soldiers.

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

It is no longer possible to place a halo around war and speak of it in idealistic terms.

Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you just can't do that

At the same time we, being adequate and normal people, of course, are not capable of enjoying military action, war and each one of us, I am convinced, would like an end to hostilities. We simply understand that this is completely unrealistic and impossible on current terms.

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country.

It is not honourable to attack an enemy without putting yourself at risk.

Being all things to all people is not really possible right now, if it ever was.

Faith in armed might paralyzes international action.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.