Top 51 George S. Patton Jr. Quotes
#1. A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
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#2. There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.
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#3. Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
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#5. If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do ... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
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#7. 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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#8. A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.
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#9. I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a ... fighter, But to die again, once more.
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#10. Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
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#11. 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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#12. I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden than to be the owner of this nasty country where it rains every day.
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#13. 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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#16. All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
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#22. I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
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#23. I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
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#24. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
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#26. An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit
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#27. Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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#29. The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more.
... George S. Patton
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#32. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
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#38. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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#41. Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
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#43. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen
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#44. No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.
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#45. 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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#46. I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death ...
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#47. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
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#48. Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.
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#49. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom
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#50. No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
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#51. You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?
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