War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
GEORGE S. PATTONUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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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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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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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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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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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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