If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

To get the best out of your men, they must feel that you are their real leader and must know that they can depend upon you.

The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

I want to spend my life helping other reach their God Given Dreams!

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins, that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

It is perhaps necessary for something dear to be lost.”“Why?”“Perhaps it is necessary to the making of a story. A story after all is a way of remembering love.

I just wish insignificance had more stature.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.