Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

The president cannot escape from his office.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.