I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

I find I like it too much.

Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!