If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.