Creighton Abrams Quotes

Creighton Abrams delivers stark, gritty reflections on military resilience, ideal for those seeking hard-won leadership insight.

5 quotes

1. They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

2. Give a soldier an anvil, just a hunk of metal, and drive him out into the desert and leave him. In two weeks - when you go to get him, the anvil will be broken.

3. When eating an elephant take one at a time.

4. It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

5. Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.