"The United States must be prepared to use atomic weapons in the event of a major war."

"I can't tell you how many times I've walked down a street and someone has said, 'Hey, general, how's the war going?' And I've had to say, 'I don't know, I'm just the President.'"

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

"I just wanted to make sure that people understood that I wasn't just a general, that I was a human being."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."