Top 243 Quotes & Sayings by George S. Patton - Page 4

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

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

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

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

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.

In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

This is a hell of a way to die.

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

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

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

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 sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

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.

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

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

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.

Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

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

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

A man must know his destiny.

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.

Take not counsel of your fears

Take calculated risks.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

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

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.

You must do your damdest and win.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

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

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

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

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!

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

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

All glory is fleeting.

Death can be more exciting than life.

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.

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

The soldier is the army.

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