The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

Success is never final.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.