To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
GEORGE S. PATTONThere is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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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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I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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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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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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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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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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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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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Do more than is required of you.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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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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When in doubt, ATTACK!
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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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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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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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