Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

The sergeant is the Army.

I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.