One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

I would rather he had given me one more division

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.