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.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

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

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.