A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTONUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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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 pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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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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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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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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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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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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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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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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War is the only place where a man lives.
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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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