It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy . . . on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.