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.
GEORGE S. PATTONAccept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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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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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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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 upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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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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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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