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When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. "Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use. If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles, and they make me lucky. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. In war there is no substitute for victory. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it. We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. Pessimism never won any battle. |