No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
GEORGE S. PATTONUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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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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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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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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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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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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Pressure makes diamonds.
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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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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