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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

George S. Patton

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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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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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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Do more than is required of you.
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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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There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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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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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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