“War is the only place where a man lives.”

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.

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.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

When you live your life well and to the fullest there’s no time to even stress about a single thing.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don’t think that is the nation we should be living in.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Live as though life was created for you.

Learn to live between effort and surrender. Do your best and hope for what you want, but do not resist the direction of the wind.⁠

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.