George S. Patton Quotes


The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.


Citations

Patton, George S. The Patton Papers: 1940-1945. Edited by Martin Blumenson, Houghton Mifflin, 1974, p. 317.

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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.