Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.