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

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

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.