Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

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.

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.

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.