As God once said, and I think rightly..

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear..

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confid….

On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedo….

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight..

Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who….

The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to f….

Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the….

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it..

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility..

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy..

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly..

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more wil….

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fi….

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to hav….

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a lead….

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good..

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners..

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China..