When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

The sergeant is the Army.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

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

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.