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. 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 by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

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

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.