21 Quotes by James Forrestal

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

I have a lot of homework, and I have some I need to do while I'm doing the play.

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

We went to the zone because Cullen and Key were killing us with penetration in the third quarter, and it gives us better position for rebounding. We wanted to make them beat us from outside instead of in the lane.

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.

A short-term pop in dividend stocks is not likely. The market has re-priced these stocks over the past five months.