The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

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

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

You're never beaten until you admit it

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

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.