You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.