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

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.