A plan of campaign should anticipate everything which the enemy can do, and contain within itself the means of thwarting him.

An army should have but a single line of operations which it should carefully preserve, and should abandon only when compelled by imperious circumstances.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. But organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a battle.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.