No Army Has Ever Done So Much

Once War Is Forced Upon Us, There Is No Alternative Than To Apply Every Available Means To Bring It To A Swift End. War’s Very Object Is Victory-not Prolonged Indecision.

I Will Defend Korea As I Would My Own Country-just As I Would California.

We Are Bound No Longer By The Straitjacket Of The Past And Nowhere Is The Change Greater Than In Our Profession Of Arms. What, You May Well Ask, Will Be The End Of All Of This? I Would Not Know! But I Would Hope That Our Beloved Country Will Drink Deep From The Chalice Of Courage.

Nothing Would Please Me Better Than If They Would Give Me Three Months And Then Attack Here.

This Does Not Mean That You Are Warmongers. On The Contrary, The Soldier Above All Other People Prays For Peace, For He Must Suffer And Bear The Deepest Wounds And Scars Of War. But Always In Our Ears Ring The Ominous Words Of Plato, That Wisest Of All Philosophers: "only The Dead Have Seen The End Of War.