Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

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

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

There is no security. Only opportunity.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.