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.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

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.