Death can be more exciting than life.
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser. This is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
Battle is an orgy of disorder.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.