Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
– Bernard Law Montgomery
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.