All GEORGE S. PATTON Quotes about “Army”

“I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”
“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for oneâ€™s country”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
“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.”
“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”
“A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.”
“Live for something rather than die for nothing.”
“Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.”
“Always do everything you ask of those you command.”
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”
“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.”
“The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.”
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men”
“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.”
“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.”
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
“There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.”

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