I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

I never even had the time to read novels.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'