…. You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.