312 Quotes by George S. Patton

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.