George S. Patton Quotes

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut by Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

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