If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

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.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Death can be more exciting than life.

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!