“Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.”

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”

“For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight their battles from reading books, neither is it likely that military historians learned to write their books from watching battles. Battles are extremely confusing; and confronted with the need to make sense of something he does not understand, even the cleverest, indeed preeminently the cleverest man, realizing his need for a language and metaphor he does not possess, will turn to look at what someone else has already made of a similar set of events as a guide for his own pen.”

“I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.”

“How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.”