Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.