Rules Are Mostly Made To Be Broken

While No Man In His Right Mind Would Advocate Sending Our Ground Forces Into Continental China, And Such Was Never Given A Thought, The New Situation Did Urgently Demand A Drastic Revision Of Strategic Planning If Our Political Aim Was To Defeat This New Enemy As We Had Defeated The Old.

I Address You With Neither Rancor Nor Bitterness In The Fading Twilight Of Life, With But One Purpose In Mind: To Serve My Country. The Issues Are Global And So Interlocked That To Consider The Problems Of One Sector, Oblivious To Those Of Another, Is But To Court Disaster For The Whole. While Asia Is Commonly Referred To As The Gateway To Europe, It Is No Less True That Europe Is The Gateway To Asia, And The Broad Influence Of The One Cannot Fail To Have Its Impact Upon The Other.

Our Government Has Kept Us In A Perpetual State Of Fear - Kept Us In A Continuous Stampede Of Patriotic Fervor - With The Cry Of Grave National Emergency. Always There Has Been Some Terrible Evil At Home Or Some Monstrous Foreign Power That Was Going To Gobble Us Up If We Did Not Blindly Rally Behind It By Furnishing The Exorbitant Funds Demanded. Yet, In Retrospect, These Disasters Seem Never To Have Happened, Seem Never To Have Been Quite Real.

The Best Luck Of All Is The Luck You Make For Yourself.

No Plan Ever Survives Its First Encounter With The Enemy.