That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

There is no such man as a one-person hero.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

Life is a misery, without music.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Nobody gets something for nothing.

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

Danger followed in his wake . . . followed, because it wouldn’t dare get in his way.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

We really didn't talk a whole lot about relationships. I believe I asked if he had ever been married, and he said no.