Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTONTo be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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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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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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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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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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