Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle… Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
Fear kills more people than death.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it.
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an ’88 and shove that barrel up Hitler’s ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn’t need two more wishes.
To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.
You’re never beaten until you admit it
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.
There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that’s working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That’s where prayer comes in.
Pressure makes diamonds
