It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

Superficial goals lead to superficial results

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.