I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

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

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.