Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.