I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.