Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

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.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.