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«If you must fire do a good job-a few casualties become martyrs, a large number an object lesson. ...When a mob starts to move keep it on the run. ...Use a bayonet to encourage its retreat. If they are running, a few good wounds in the buttocks will encourage them. If they resist, they must be killed.»

«a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.»

«The holy mission has been completed»

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

«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, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''»

«[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 to help and to learn.] We were once many; now we are so few, ... 'Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.' I declare this unit disbanded.»

«There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.»

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

«Old Soldiers Never Die (Farewell Address to Congress),»

«We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.»