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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

George S. Patton

Do everything you ask of those you command.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Command Leadership War
I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Brave Frightened Intelligence Man
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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Battle Competition Human Being Remove
If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Inspirational Man
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Example Leadership Officer Voice
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Deep Thinking
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTON

History River War
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Bullet Courage Education Face Useless
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Die Foolish God Live Men Wrong
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
GEORGE S. PATTON

People Surprise
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Coward Fatigue One Liner
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Leadership Military Spagehetti
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.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Army Citizen Country Soldier
There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Defeat Live Pathethic
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Direct Ruthless Wages War
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Blood Courage Flesh Human Being Miracle

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