A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them-- for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity -- went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.