Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

All glory is fleeting.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.