"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."

"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."

"I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age."

"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."