Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

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