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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?
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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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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If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!
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So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.
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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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Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.
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I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
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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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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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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
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Wars are not won by fighting battles wars are won by choosing battles
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Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
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Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.
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There is no such thing as a successful defense.
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All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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You must do your damdest and win.
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