The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

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

I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.