I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.