Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

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.

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.

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

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.