SELECTED QUOTATIONS: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS

SELECTED QUOTATIONS: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

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Washington, D.C. 20315

3 February 1964

SELECTED QUOTATIONS: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS

PREPARED IN OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY 1 February 1964

INTRODUCTION

Military history and military literature have been enriched through the years by the utterances and writings of the officers and enlisted men of the United States Army. This publication is a preliminary effort to collect and organize some of this material for use by the military establishment. The quotations included herein were selected on the basis of their quotability, interest, inspirational quality and their expression of accepted military doctrine. They are the product of research in sources readily available in the Office of the Chief of Military History and there-- fore are limited in quantity and scope.

Each page consists of two columns. The column on the right containes the quotation; the left identifies the person responsible for the quotation, its source document for this compilation, and when deemed appropriate, a description of the situation at the time the quotation was made. The quotations are listed in order of their authorls appearance in military history.

Complete documents suitable for quotation in their entirety have been reproduced and included as appendices.

1 February 1964

TABLES OF CONTENTS

General Periodss Colonial Wars and the Revolutionary War War of 1812 Mexican War Civil War Indian Wars China Relief Expedition World War I World War II -- Korea

Appendix Name Index Subject Index

1 8 10 14 32

33 33

38 63-71

72-75

76.82

GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON

Excerpt from a letter of instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiment, July 29, 1759. (Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington. A Biography, Vol. II, New York, 1949, p. 263.)

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. . . ?

GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON

(General Orders, Head Quarters New York, July 2,

1776. John C. Fitzpatrick,

ed., The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscribt Sources& 1745-1799,

Washington, 1931-1944, Vol. 5,

p. 212.)

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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world, that a Freeman contending for LIBERTY on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

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