“Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all.”

“Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.”

“All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”

“We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.”

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

“If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”

“It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.”

“We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.”