When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

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

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.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.