American exceptionalism Quote by Christopher S.M. Lyon

“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 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’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

There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.

— Michael Korda

“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

“Always do more than is required of you. —GEORGE S. PATTON”

— Jeff Goins

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

“The striking circumstance,” Patton mused, “that, thousands of years later, necessity has again begat of invention identical solutions for identical problems is truly arresting.”

— Ladislas Farago

“The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ...…

— George S. Patton

“He was, in the eyes of his men, a strange mixture of man and superman. “Like God.” Staff Sergeant Aeuhl E. Pullen said of…

— Ladislas Farago

“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

“That split second an invisible battery opened up with a salvo. Patton had to raise his voice to a still higher pitch, as he…

— Ladislas Farago