Do everything you ask of those you command.
GEORGE S. PATTONWars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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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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Pressure makes diamonds.
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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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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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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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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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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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