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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

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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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Bastard Country Die War
Do everything you ask of those you command.
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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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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Fault Ideas Little Soldier War
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Consequences Duty See
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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Pressure makes diamonds.
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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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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Blood Sweat War
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Coward Fatigue One Liner
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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Afraid Battle Coward Duty Manhood Men Overcome Sense War
If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Inspirational Man
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy War
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Army Fight Soldier Win
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Follow Leadership War
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Command Success Treat
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Deep Thinking
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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Brave Frightened Intelligence Man
There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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Defeat Live Pathethic
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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