Always do everything you ask of those you command.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

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.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

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.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

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