Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

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

The god of war hates those who hesitate.

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.