George S. Patton Quotes - Page 10

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

All glory is fleeting.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

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

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Battle... brings out all that is best.

The soldier is the army.

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