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.

Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

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.

We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.

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

This is a hell of a way to die.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example