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

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans. My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.

Battle... brings out all that is best.

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.