There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTONBattle 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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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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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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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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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