Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTONThroughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
GEORGE S. PATTONNo sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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.
GEORGE S. PATTONThere is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
GEORGE S. PATTONAn active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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.
GEORGE S. PATTONMany soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
GEORGE S. PATTONI am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
GEORGE S. PATTONBetter to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTONIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE S. PATTONWars 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.
GEORGE S. PATTONSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTONOfficers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
GEORGE S. PATTONSuccess in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
GEORGE S. PATTONFatigue makes cowards of us all.
GEORGE S. PATTONHuman beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
GEORGE S. PATTON