When In Doubt, Attack!

A Good Plan Violently Executed Now Is Better Than A Perfect Plan Executed Next Week.

Discipline Can Only Be Obtained When All The Officers Are Imbued With The Sense Of Their Awful Obligation To Their Men And To Their Country That They Cannot Tolerate Negligence. Officers Who Fail To Correct Errors Or To Praise Excellence Are Valueless In Peace And Dangerous Misfits In War.

Successful Generals Make Plans To Fit Circumstances, But Do Not Try To Create Circumstances To Fit Plans.

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.

Be Willing To Make Decisions. That's The Most Important Quality In A Good Leader.