I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"