I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

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

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.