"And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force"

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"

"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti"

"The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength"

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare"

"I am the supreme warlord; I do not wage war in order to achieve definite military objectives, but to destroy the enemy"

"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497"

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end"

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music"