Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

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.

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.