Scott Mancuso > Scott's Quotes

“Shall I show him in or tell him to go find a short and unpleasant route to hell?”
― John Ringo, There Will Be Dragons

“Peace through superior firepower.”
― John Ringo, A Hymn Before Battle

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., 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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
― George S. Patton

“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”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom”
― General George S. Patton

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“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.”
― George S. Patton

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“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.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“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.”
― George S. Patton

“Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”
― George S. Patton Jr.