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In case of doubt, attack.
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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There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
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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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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
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To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing.
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My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.
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When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
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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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When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
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Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.
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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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Battle... brings out all that is best.
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Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
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To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
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By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
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Close the playand keep the store open nights.
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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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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
George S. Patton
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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