George S Patton Quotes

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I am the only true gambler in the whole outfit.
George S Patton

Every once in a while the tremendous responsibility of this job lands on me like a ton of bricks, but mostly I am not in the least worried.
George S Patton

Apparently I should have been a statesman.
George S Patton

It is the duty of the military to foresee and prepare against the worst possible eventuality.
George S Patton

It is as natural for me to be a soldier as it is to breathe and would be as hard to give up all thought of it as it would to stop breathing.
George S Patton

Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all the time.
George S Patton

Americans love a winner.
George S Patton

You are not going to die. Only 2 percent of you right here today would die in a major battle.
George S Patton



Death is not to be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men.
George S Patton

An army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats and fights as a team.
George S Patton

Individual heroic stuff is pure horsesh*t.
George S Patton

My men don’t surrender.
George S Patton

All the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters… Every single man in this army plays a vital role. Don’t get let up. Don’t ever think that your job is unimportant.
George S Patton

Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
George S Patton

I am sick of the unnecessary butchery of American youth, and in exchange for four days of fighting weather, I will deliver you enough krauts to keep your bookkeepers months behind in their work.
George S Patton

I can tell a commander by the way he speaks. He does not have to swear as much as I do, but he has to speak so that no one will refuse to follow his order.
George S Patton

No one ever learned to skate on a map board. Take the map with you and get up front!
George S Patton

There are no practice games in life. It’s eat or be eaten, kill or be killed.
George S Patton



Pick the man that can get the job done!
George S Patton

I am sure your ancestors are always with you. They are watching. They expect a hell of a lot out of you.
George S Patton

It is much better to go over difficult ground where you are not expected than it is over good ground where you are expected.
George S Patton

The impossible place is usually the least well defended.
George S Patton



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