“No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.”

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

“Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

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.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

You figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

No one ever expects poetry to sell…

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.