We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.