Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.