Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.