“All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.”

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”

“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”

“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”