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.
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.
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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 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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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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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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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Do more than is required of you.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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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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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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