The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.