Frank Knox Quotations

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.