The loonies who sought a glorious death in battle found it very early on. This rapidly cleared the chain of command of the accumulated fools. The survivors were those who learned to fight dirty, and live, and fight another day, and win, and win, and win, and for whom nothing, not comfort, or security, not family for friends for their immortal souls, was more important than winning. Dead men are losers by definition. Survival and victory. They weren't supermen, or immune to pain. They sweated in confusion and darkness. And ... they won.

There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.

There are a number of people in the universe I'd be willing to double-cross, but my own wounded aren't among 'em.

Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.

For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness. You are mortal men. You are capable of erro…

It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.…

So much blood has already been shed for the ideals which we cherish, and for which Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived and died, that we dare not permit even a mom…