Frank Knox Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

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

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

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

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

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