We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans. My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

...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.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

Pressure makes diamonds

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.