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.

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

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.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.