Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.