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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.

George S. Patton

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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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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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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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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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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Do more than is required of you.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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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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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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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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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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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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