Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTONMay God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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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 your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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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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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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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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There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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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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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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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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