I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

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

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

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to...

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

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

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

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.