Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTONThe 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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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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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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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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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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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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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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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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