True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

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.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

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.

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

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