This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.

It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.

It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.

Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.

New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together.

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.

The American public has a right to know what's going on.

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.

The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.

There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it.

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

This is a people's war, and to win it, the people should know as much about it as they can.

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.

We can't let censorship take over.

You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The world has no room for cowards.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Reflection makes men cowards.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.