Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

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.