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It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.