Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.