Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.