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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. - George S. Patton
Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
When there is fear of failure, there will be failure. - George S. Patton
When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't. - George S. Patton
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing. - George S. Patton
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George S. Patton
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. - George S. Patton
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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