“Pressure makes diamonds.”

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.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Do everything you ask of those you command.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren’t like producers, and can’t hear the diamond in the rough.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

The questions are diamonds you hold in the light.

I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.

I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.