George S. Patton Quotes - Page 10

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• 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.

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• There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Men, Discipline

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• Death can be more exciting than life.

  George S. Patton

  Death, Exciting

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• The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Army, Done

  Letter to Frederick Ayers on May 05, 1943. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book by Martin Blumenson, p. 242, 1996.

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

  George S. Patton

  Dirty, Men, Giving

  "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, 1983.

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• Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ideas

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• Close the playand keep the store open nights.

  George S. Patton

  Night, Stores

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• 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

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• So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Fighting, Biting

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 5. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.
  If we accept them we will never win.
  Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,
  We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 1. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

  George S. Patton

  Fate, Thinking, Years

  Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower in May 1942. "Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life". Book by Carlo D'Este, p. 301, 2003.

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• I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

  George S. Patton

  Military, Names, Effort

  Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1942. "Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life". Book by Carlo D'Este, p. 301, 2002.

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• Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

  George S. Patton

  War, Fighting, Men

  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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• The soldier is the army.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Army

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• Battle... brings out all that is best.

  George S. Patton

  Bad Ass, Indulge In, Competition

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• Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Airplane

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