In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.