Ambition Quote by Brandon Mull

“Patton wrote in his diary on April 15th, the morning after his departure from II Corps: “War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It…

— Ladislas Farago

“Patton was ecstatic, writing home to Beatrice that “I know I am needed!” and “The Lord had a perfect cut for me and pulled…

— Christopher S.M. Lyon

“Patton’s personality was immense, but his battlefield achievements matched it. ‘I want you men to remember that no bastard ever won a war by…

— Andrew Roberts

“Patton hated and dreaded mediocrity. A few days before his death he wrote to Robert P. Patterson, who had succeeded Mr. Stimson as Secretary…

— Ladislas Farago

“While in the final analysis each of his campaigns was properly authorized in general terms (for not even Patton could free-lance in a world…

— Ladislas Farago

“The press knows Patton’s arrogance. The British understand his competitive nature. The Germans believe him to be America’s top general. But now he is…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Patton was bombed, strafed, shelled—but he thrived on it. At the summit of a badly littered road over a hill he stopped to survey…

— Ladislas Farago

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

— Bill Mauldin

“Bridezellia was like General Patton she had an Operations Room, HQ established in her sitting room. Wall charts, to do lists, pictures, contact lists,…

— Annette J Dunlea

“Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.”

— Jean Edward Smith

“The trouble was that most of the time Patton was playing the role of Lazarus at the big feast of the Allied war effort,…

— Ladislas Farago

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or…

— Simon Sinek