A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Audacity, audacity, always audacity.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

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.