Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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.

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

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

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