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Remember praise is more valuable than blame.
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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...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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Death can be more exciting than life.
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Take calculated risks.
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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 reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
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Audacity, audacity, always audacity.
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You fight like you train.
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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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You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.
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I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.
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My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
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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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Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
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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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A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
George S. Patton
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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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.
George S. Patton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
