Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

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.

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

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

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.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars