Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.