In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

American corporations hate to give away money.