The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

There is no security. Only opportunity.

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.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

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