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If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
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George S. Patton
Age: 60 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 11
Died: 1945
Died: December 21
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When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.
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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?
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I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
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Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.
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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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Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
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