We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

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

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.