I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.