I can never forgive God for having invented the French

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.