The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTONA good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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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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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Do everything you ask of those you command.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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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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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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