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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha...

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. ...

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha...

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

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

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the...

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The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the t...

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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

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

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

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have nev...

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

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George S. Patton

Military Commander

Born: 1885-11-11

Died: 1945-12-21

General George Smith Patton, Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army, who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He was known in his time as "America's Fightingest General".More