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Famous George S. Patton Quotes
“You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.”
“Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.”
“The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.”
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
“A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.”
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.”
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men”
“I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”
“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.”