I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

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

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

Always advance. Never dig in.

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.