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.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

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

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.