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. PATTONA good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
More George S. Patton Quotes
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Pressure makes diamonds.
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Do more than is required of you.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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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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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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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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