Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!

He was the best leader of fast-moving troops but only up to army level. Above that level it was too much for him. Rommel was given too much responsibility. He …

Anybody who came under the spell of his personality turned into a real soldier. He seemed to know what the enemy were like and how they would react.

Rommel was jumpy, wanted to do everything at once, then lost interest. Rommel was my superior in command in Normandy. I cannot say Rommel wasn't a good general…

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, inter…

There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet ... not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We jus…

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.