Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
GEORGE S. PATTONBetter to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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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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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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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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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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