The price of peace is eternal vigilance

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

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

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

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.