A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

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

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

l 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.

Americans never quit.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.