"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership."

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."

"I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses."

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."

"If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus"

"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears."