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Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.
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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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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Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.
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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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I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.
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Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
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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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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.
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A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
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Battle is an orgy of disorder.
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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.
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All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
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It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
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War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
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Never let the enemy pick the battle site.
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Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
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But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.
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I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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