I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it, change the way you you think about it.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

Free men set themselves free.

I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart