“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.”

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.

Caesar is not above the grammarians.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’

As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I’ll commend them for truth in advertising.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.