“I am a war president.”
“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.”
“I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.”
“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.”
“It is a State of Mind... and am the president”
“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”