“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”

“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.”

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more”

“Death can be more exciting than life.”