"I fired him because he wouldn't obey orders. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son-of-a-bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of …"

"I have learned that it is a great mistake to try to please everybody."

"They are trying to make an elder statesmen of me, but they will never succeed."

"I have found that the greatest problem in the world is to get people to understand each other."

"The American people are the best people in the world, but they can be damn fools sometimes."