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.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.