"A nation that does not prepare for all the forms of war should then renounce the use of war in national policy. A people that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal."

“There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle.”

“Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will or the power.”

“Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the passage of time does any revolution become respectable.”

“The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary.”

“America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.”

“If war is to have any meaning at all, its purpose must be to establish control over peoples and territories, and ultimately, this can be done only as Alexander the Great did it, on the ground.”