It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

Hope is the mainspring of life.