I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

There can be no peace without law.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.