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.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

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 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.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

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

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.