Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.