I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.