By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.