Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.