The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

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

Security lies in our ability to produce.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

By profession I am a soldier and take 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 potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.