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You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.
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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When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
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Take calculated risks.
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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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Audacity, audacity, always audacity.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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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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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
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I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.
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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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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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There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
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War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula
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Battle... brings out all that is best.
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