George S. Patton Quotes About World War 2

Quotes about: World War 2

• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success
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  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.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

• Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

  George S. Patton

  Love, Real, Fighting

  "Patton: ‘The Very Idea of Losing is Hateful to an American’" by Michael W. Chapman, www.cnsnews.com. July 03, 2017.

• Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ghetto

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

• Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

  George S. Patton

  War, Home, Want

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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