It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

The leader must be an actor.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

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

I read the Bible - every goddamn day.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.