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.
GEORGE S. PATTONUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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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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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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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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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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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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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.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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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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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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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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