Alan

“any general who isn’t connected spiritually to his troops is not a combat leader.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos

“If any class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the rest in political or civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell to the principles on which we count our safety.”
― D.M. Giangreco, Dear Harry...: Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953

“There were light moments in response to hecklers. ‘What would be the consequence if this seat were lost to Liberalism and to Free Trade?’ he asked his audience rhetorically. When someone shouted out ‘Beer!’, Churchill immediately replied, ‘That might be the cause. I am talking of the consequence.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Field Marshal Slim wrote in World War II: “As officers,” he wrote, “you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos