It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTONThere is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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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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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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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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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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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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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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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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