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All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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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continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.
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My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.
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To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.
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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
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The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
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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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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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I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!
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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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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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Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.
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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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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
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