The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

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.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

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

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.