There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTONAll 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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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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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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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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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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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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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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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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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