Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

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

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

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.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

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