Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

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

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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.

By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.