There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.
In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.
Free men are the strongest men.
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.