In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

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.

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.