Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTONNo poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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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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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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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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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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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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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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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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War is the only place where a man lives.
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I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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