Bernard Law Montgomery Quotations

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.