Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.