In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

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

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

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?