The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder — infinitely prouder — to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds,...

The holy mission has been completed

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Up to fifty atomic bombs should be dropped on Chinese cities,

I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return

In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Americans never quit.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in...

[Erickson gave an address to the group gathered for the last time in Mankato that he described as very emotional. He told the group how gratifying it was to see all the young people, there...

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation

There’s no security on this earth, only opportunity.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction

No army has ever done so much with so little

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory