Conrad Black

"My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised.... They have huge power, and many of them are extremely reckless."

"Thanks to Eleanor, Roosevelt was probably the only president in American history who had any direct familiarity with urban poverty."

"(Britain had 84 battleships and battlecruisers, including 35 modern battleships; compared, respectively, with Germany’s 48 and 20 and the United States’s 41 and 18. France, Japan, Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary trailed.)"

"War may be ‘declared’; peace cannot."

"We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated.” He spoke of “the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking,” and accepted that Germany had, in fact, already gone to war against the United States."

"Wilson was encouraged by “the wonderful and heartening” events in Russia, which had “been always in fact democratic at heart . . . The great generous Russian people have been added in all their native majesty and might to the forces of freedom. We are now about to accept the gauge of battle with [Germany], this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the Nation . . . to fight for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberalism of its peoples, the German people included."

"His last recorded words about Franklin were very optimistic and appreciative: “I know he is good and will be good,"