George S. Patton Quotes


From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.


Citations

Patton, George S. Address to the Third Army. 5 June 1944. The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, edited by Martin Blumenson, Houghton Mifflin, 1974, p. 457.

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George S. Patton
George S. Patton
  • Born: November 11, 1885
  • Died: December 21, 1945
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Soldier

George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.