Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

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

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

Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.

Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.