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.

America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

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

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.