The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.