"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."