For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

I keep six honest serving men.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.