Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

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

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.