It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTONSay what you mean and mean what you say.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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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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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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