“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

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