The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

Lafayette, we are here.

In military science there is a principle more important than Forward: it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

We are all shot through with human imperfections and we shall all fall short of our highest ideals; but if in this loyal brotherhood we find helpful understanding, human sympathy, and affection, then the strong will help make the weakest of us stronger, and together we will find our powers multiplied many times over.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people, and kill them.

Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy, so I can't ground him.

Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...

Rommel, you beautiful bastard, I read your book.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.