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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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George Smith Patton
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Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
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It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
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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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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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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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Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
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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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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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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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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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Battle... brings out all that is best.
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A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
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Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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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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When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.
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Audacity, audacity, always audacity.
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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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Battle is an orgy of disorder.
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