What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.