Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed

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.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

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

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.