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The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.
The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship.
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.
Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.
Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.