Quotes from Gen. George S. Patton

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

It is not the American soldiers duty do die for his country. It is the American soldiers duty to make the enemy die for his country.

If you win, give the credit. If you lose, take the blame.

We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not just going to shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.

It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the "fear of They," and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and weak-kneed congressmen.

Christmas dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans, although the thought seemed somewhat at variance with the spirit of the day.