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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

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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Bullet Courage Education Face Useless
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
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
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Afraid Battle Coward Duty Manhood Men Overcome Sense War
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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Fight Life Live
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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Army Fight Soldier Win
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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Army History Military Soldier War
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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Bastard Country Die Poor War Win
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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Character Inspirational One Liner
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Coward Fatigue One Liner
Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Example Leadership Officer Voice
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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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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Execution Perfection Planning Violent
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
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Active Body Exist Inactive Mind
I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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Bottom Bounce Climb Measure Success
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Deep Thinking
Pressure makes diamonds.
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Diamond Gemstone Jewelry Motivational One Liner Pressure
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
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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Enemy God Mercy
Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Consequences Duty See
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
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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Chair Decision
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
Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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History River War
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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Activity Approach Height Man Rise Supreme Test War
War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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Direct Ruthless Wages War
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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Bounce Success Test

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