I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

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 winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.