When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

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

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.