Military General Quotes

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  Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

  James Mattis

  Bad Ass, Marine Corps, Sniping

  "'Fiasco'". armedforcesjournal.com. August 01, 2006.

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• 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.

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

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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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

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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.

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• It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Forgiving

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

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• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, Military, Bad Ass

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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• Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

  George S. Patton

  Veterans Day, Courage, Fear

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

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• Live for something rather than die for nothing.

  George S. Patton

  Birthday, Military, Army

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

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Witty, Military

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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!"

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

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

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• 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.

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• Can there be allowed - are we allowed to have any more in the military, General, the element of surprise? You know, I would think it would be a good thing. It's called an ancient strength and we don't use it anymore.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Thinking, Use

  Source: time.com

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• 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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• The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Military, Distance, Army

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• Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

  Cindy Gerard

  Military, Army Officers, Dies

  Cindy Gerard (2008). “Whisper No Lies”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

  Henry George Bohn

  Veterans Day, Military, Blood

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• The General Order is always:
  ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack.
  ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline.
  ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready.
  ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go.
  ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion.
  And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.

  Lazare Carnot

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• 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.

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