Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
GEORGE S. PATTONThroughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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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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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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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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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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