SELECTED QUOTATIONS: U.S. MILITARY LEADERS

SELECTED QUOTATIONS:

U.S. MILITARY LEADERS

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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

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¡ª

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

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War of 1812

8

Mexican War

10

Civil War

14

Indian Wars

32

China Relief Expedition

33

World War I

33

World War II ¡ª Korea

38

Appendix

63-71

Name Index

72-75

Subject Index

76.82

GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON

Discipline is the soul

of an army. It makes small

numbers formidable; procures

success to the weak, and

esteem to all. . . ?

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.)

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.)

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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