Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.