A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.
Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.
Armed forces can wage wars but they cannot make peace.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.
Democracy can withstand ideological attacks if democracy will provide earnestly and liberally for the welfare of its people.
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
The burden of long-term total preparedness for some indefinite but inevitable war could not help but crush the freedom we prize.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
While as a prudent people we must prepare ourselves to encounter what we may be unable to prevent, we nevertheless must never surrender ourselves to the certainty of that encounter.
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