If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

I could never be so lucky again