Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

I can't go on like this

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”“Already crazy about you, Sage.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.