George S. Patton Quotes
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
George S. Patton, 1885-1945, U.S. Army General, Quoted in Cavalry Journal, September 1933
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As an educational and military leader, he saw the importance of each in a nation’s welfare.
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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.
