A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.