A Civil Servant Is Sometimes Like A

Many, Who Should Know Better, Think That Wars Can Be Decided By Soulless Machines, Rather Than By The Blood And Anguish Of Brave Men.

There Are Three Ways That Men Get What They Want; By Planning, By Working, And By Praying. Any Great Military Operation Takes Careful Planning, Or Thinking. Then You Must Have Well-trained Troops To Carry It Out: That's Working. But Between The Plan And The Operation There Is Always An Unknown. That Unknown Spells Defeat Or Victory, Success Or Failure. It Is The Reaction Of The Actors To The Ordeal When It Actually Comes. Some People Call That Getting The Breaks; I Call It God. God Has His Part, Or Margin In Everything, That's Where Prayer Comes In.

I Learned Very Early In My Life Never To Take Counsel In My Fears.

It Is The Cold Glitter Of The Attacker's Eye Not The Point Of The Questing Bayonet That Breaks The Line.

A Man Must Know His Destiny… If He Does Not Recognize It, Then He Is Lost. By This I Mean, Once, Twice, Or At The Very Most, Three Times, Fate Will Reach Out And Tap A Man On The Shoulder… If He Has The Imagination, He Will Turn Around And Fate Will Point Out To Him What Fork In The Road He Should Take, If He Has The Guts, He Will Take It.