“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.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.

I am a force of nature. I command an audience by just my mere presence.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.

I speak and speak but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.