George S. Patton Quotes
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.
Citations
Patton, George S. "Speech to the Third Army." 5 June 1944. The Patton Papers: 1940-1945, edited by Martin Blumenson, Houghton Mifflin, 1974, p. 456.
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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.