There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTONA piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
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Do more than is required of you.
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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
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The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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