I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.