“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”