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I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.