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Rationality will not save us.
Intelligence is not a science.
We see what we want to believe.
Don't fight the problem, decide it.
The price of peace is eternal vigilance
Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.
In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil
The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.
There are many ways to make the death rate increase.
I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.
What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.
It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.
To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?
There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.
When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.
I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.
It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.
Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.
We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.