I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

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

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.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.