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“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
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“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
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“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
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“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
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“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― The Patton principles
― The Patton principles
“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
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“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
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“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 one’s country”
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“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
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“Pressure makes diamonds”
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“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
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“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom”
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“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”
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“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”
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“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
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“A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.”
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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
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“When in doubt, ATTACK!”
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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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“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
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“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
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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.
Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some it takes an hour. For some it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor his sense of duty to his country and his innate manhood.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.”
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Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some it takes an hour. For some it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor his sense of duty to his country and his innate manhood.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.”
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“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
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“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
― War as I Knew It
― War as I Knew It
“An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”
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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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“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one
thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the
body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is
never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger
the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was
never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over
and keep going.”
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thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the
body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is
never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger
the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was
never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over
and keep going.”
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“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
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“Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! ”
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“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood”
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