Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.