Do everything you ask of those you command.
GEORGE S. PATTONDo everything you ask of those you command.
GEORGE S. PATTONNever tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
GEORGE S. PATTONA piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
GEORGE S. PATTONNo sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
GEORGE S. PATTONDo your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
GEORGE S. PATTONCourage is fear holding on a minute longer.
GEORGE S. PATTONThe 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.
GEORGE S. PATTONIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTONA good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTONWar is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
GEORGE S. PATTONSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTONWhen in doubt, ATTACK!
GEORGE S. PATTONGive 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.
GEORGE S. PATTONI am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
GEORGE S. PATTONAn active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
GEORGE S. PATTONThroughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTON