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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.

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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America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
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In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
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I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!
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In case of doubt, attack.
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Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen
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There is no such thing as a successful defense.
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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
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You must do your damdest and win.
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Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.
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Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
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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 bottom.
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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
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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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We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
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Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.
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The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
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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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