It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.