George S. Patton Quotes

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

“Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.”

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

“All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”

“We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.”

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

“There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”

“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.”

“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”

“I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.”

“When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.”

“Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.”

“Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.”

“If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.”

“When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.”

“You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.”

“Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.”

“Remember praise is more valuable than blame.”

“My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.”

“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”