The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.
Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.