312 Quotes by George S. Patton

I’d rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

There’s only one way for a professional soldier to die. That’s from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

When we land against the enemy, don’t forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

There is only one sort of discipline – PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

My men don’t dig foxholes. I don’t want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don’t give the enemy time to dig one either.

War is a bloody, killing business. You’ve got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.