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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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Military Commander
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Swimmer
San Gabriel
California
The Old Man
Old Blood and Guts
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General Patton
George Smith Patton
Jr.
G.S. Patton
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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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...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
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Make your plans to fit the circumstances.
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Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.
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Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
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There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
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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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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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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen
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The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! 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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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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Battle is an orgy of disorder.
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You must do your damdest and win.
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War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula
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