Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

Americans never quit.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

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.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

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.