George S. Patton Quotes
Could anything be more magnificent. Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.
Patton, one of the world’s best fighting general was somewhat mentally unbalanced and unlike almost all senior officers who are successful commanders but see war as an unpleasant, brutal necessity, Patton loved war and the fighting part of it. His non battlefield behavior was so erratic and atrocious that Eisenhower and his other superiors almost fired him on several occasions. He died in an automobile crash shortly after the German surrender, so the dilemma of what to do with Patton in peacetime was resolved.
George S. Patton, 1885-1945, U.S. Army General, Quoted in New York Times Book Review, May 26, 1913
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