When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

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

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.