We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

Our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

The man who cannot look upon the battlefield dry-eyed will allow many men to be killed uselessly.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.