Passive inactivity because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that is a serious deficiency.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.