Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

You're never beaten until you admit it

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

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

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.