It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.