Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.”
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
“There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.”
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
“For four hundred years the foreign policy of England has been to oppose the strongest, most aggressive, most dominating Power on the Continent.”
“The statesmen miscalculated again. Their fellow-countrymen had the means to carry out their policy but not the will; their pawns had the will without the means.”
“They rushed into it with their eyes open because they could not resist the bait.”
“United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.”
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
“Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.”
“Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is Ich bin ein Berliner.”
“The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small State to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”
“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
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