I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts