It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.

Preparedness is the key to success and victory.