There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.