George S. Patton Quotes - Page 9

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

This is a hell of a way to die.

Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all.

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

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.

I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

You must do your damdest and win.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Take calculated risks.

Take not counsel of your fears

Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

Death can be more exciting than life.

A man must know his destiny.

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.