George S. Patton Quotes About Army

Quotes about: Army

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Military, War

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

• No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Business, Military
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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Country, Military, Army
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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

• Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Strength, Courage

• If a man does his best, what else is there?

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Witty, Military

• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

  George S. Patton

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Rain, Army
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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!"

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  Running, Nice, Party

  "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

• A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Positive Thinking

  "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 165, 1983.

• Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Men, Stupidity

• Live for something rather than die for nothing.

  George S. Patton

  Birthday, Military, Army

• The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Army, Soldier

• Always do everything you ask of those you command.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Military Leadership, Military Command

  "I Remember General Patton's Principles". Book by Porter B. Williamson, p. 174, 1984.

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Mean, Army

  "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder". Book by Michael Savage. Chapter 1: "More Patton, Less Patent Leather", p. 4, 2005.

• Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Thinking, Race

  Letter to Frederick Ayers on May 05, 1943. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book by Martin Blumenson, p. 243, 1996.

• 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.

  George S. Patton

  Loyalty, Army, Men

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton, 1947.

• Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Military, War

• America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

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