Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

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

This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.