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  • When you get on that plane to go home, if the last thing you think about me is "I hate that son of a bitch," then that is fine because you're going home alive.
  • Wars aren't won by dying for your cause. Wars are won by getting your enemy to die for theirs.
    • This seems to be a paraphrase of lines from the film Patton

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  • Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
    • Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" (2002) by James Charlton, p. 83
  • Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
    • Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" (2002) by James Charlton, p. 60
  • True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.
    • As quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes from American Heroes (2005) by Kelly Nickell, p. 53
  • I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting.
    • As quoted in I Fail to Miss Your Point (2007) by Jim O'Bryon, p. 409
  • When placed in command — take charge.
    • Quoted in "Leadership" (2007) by David M. Atkinson, p. 42
  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
    • Quoted in The Daily Book of Positive Quotations (2008) by Linda Picone, p. 326