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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.

George S. Patton

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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Blood Courage Flesh Human Being Miracle
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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People Surprise
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Consequences Duty See
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Deep Thinking
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
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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Fight Men Spirit Victory War Weapon Win
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Active Body Exist Inactive Mind
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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History River War
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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Army Battle War Win
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
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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Battle Competition Human Being Remove
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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Bold Depend Gold Rule Simplicity Speed Success War
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
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

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