Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
The god of war hates those who hesitate.
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.
Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
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.
Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.
An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.
The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.
Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
