Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

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.