'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.