If a man does his best, what else is there?
GEORGE S. PATTONThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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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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There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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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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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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Pressure makes diamonds.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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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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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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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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