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.
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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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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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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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