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Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.
They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.
Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.
I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.
I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?
I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.