"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"The United States must be prepared to use atomic weapons in the event of a major war."

"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."

"I just wanted to make sure that people understood that I wasn't just a general, that I was a human being."

"I'm not a politician. I'm a soldier. And I'm going to run this country like a soldier."