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.
GEORGE S. PATTONOfficers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Do more than is required of you.
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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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The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
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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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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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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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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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