“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

I came through and I shall return.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history’s clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

The war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.

We stand in solidarity against racism and for racial justice.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.