George S. Patton quotes - page 6

Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book! (George S. Patton)
So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter, But to die again, once more. View quote
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Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that. View quote
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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. View quote
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Of all the many talks I had in Washington, none gave me such pleasure as that with you. View quote
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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. View quote
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The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. View quote
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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. View quote
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Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you; But of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aims fulfilled, They will all say, We did this ourselves. View quote
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Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations. View quote
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War is a bloody business, a killing business. (George S. Patton)
Each man must think not only of himself, but think of his buddy fighting alongside him. View quote
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The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. View quote
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I don't want any messages saying 'I'm holding my position.' We're not holding a goddamned thing. We're advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding anything except the enemy's balls. View quote
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All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling." View quote
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I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. 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. View quote
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One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit the plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances. View quote
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It's the unconquerable soul of man, not the nature of the weapon he uses, that insures victory. View quote
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Of all the many talks I had in Washington, none gave me such pleasure as that with you. There were two reasons for this. In the first place, you are about my oldest friend. In the second place, your self-assurance and to me, at least, demonstrated ability, give me a great feeling of confidence about the future ... and 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)
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. View quote
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Don't forget, you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans. Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, "Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-fucking-bitch Patton". View quote
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I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn! View quote
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We have destroyed what could have been a good race and we are about to replace them with the Mongolian savage and all Europe with Communism. View quote
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