My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.