Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

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.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.