Simply act decisively Without reserv

Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.

No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so — without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.