Have A Good Plan, Execute

By Profession I Am A Soldier And Take Great 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, Never Destroys. The One Has The Potentialities Of Death; The Other Embodies Creation And Life.

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.

However Horrible The Incidents Of War May Be, The Soldier Who Is Called Upon To Offer And To Give His Life For His Country Is The Noblest Development Of Mankind.

I Stand On This Rostrum With A Sense Of Deep Humility And Great Pride - Humility In The Weight Of Those Great American Architects Of Our History Who Have Stood Here Before Me; Pride In The Reflection That This Home Of Legislative Debate Represents Human Liberty In The Purest Form Yet Devised.

In Many Situations That Seemed Desperate, The Artillery Has Been A Most Vital Factor.