In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.

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

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.