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

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.

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

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.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

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

The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.