The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
GEORGE S. PATTONMay God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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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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Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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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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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
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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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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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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.
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