Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Knox

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Frank Knox.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

William Franklin Knox was an American politician, newspaper editor and publisher. He was also the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936, and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Knox flanked by his assistant John O’Keefe walked into Roosevelt's White House study at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST announcing that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. Knox was mentioned by name in Adolf Hitler's speech of December 11, 1941, in which Hitler asked for a German declaration of war against the United States.

American - Public Servant | January 1, 1874 - April 28, 1944

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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

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

Frank Knox

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Frank Knox

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

Frank Knox

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

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

Frank Knox

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

Frank Knox

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.

Frank Knox

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

Frank Knox

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

Frank Knox

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

Frank Knox