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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.