Great Throughts Treasury

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."

"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."

"Personal leadership exists only as the officers demonstrate it by superior courage, wider knowledge, quicker initiative, and a greater readiness to accept responsibility than those they lead."

"There is nobody who cannot vastly improve his powers of leadership by a little thought and practice."

"The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness."

"There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."