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.

Public opinion wins wars.

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

America is best described by one word, freedom.

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

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.