Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

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