The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.