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So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.
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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...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.
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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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Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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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 need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
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I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Battle... brings out all that is best.
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You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
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If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.
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An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.
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Never let the enemy pick the battle site.
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I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
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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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Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?
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War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula
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Audacity, audacity, always audacity.
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