Frank Knox Quotes

• Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

  Frank Knox

  Memorial Day, Fire, Patriotism

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

  Frank Knox

  Gratitude, War, Army

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

  Frank Knox

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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

  Frank Knox

  Peace, War, Naps

  4 December 1941; quoted in David McCullough, Truman (1992).

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

  Frank Knox

  War, Fighting, Two

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• 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.

  Frank Knox

  Tolerance, Progress, Quality

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

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  Thinking, Prejudice, Creeds

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And 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. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.

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  Education, Art, Believe

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

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  War, Modern, Knows

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

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  Family, Heaven, Bed

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

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  Men, Force, Unthinkable

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