War Quote by 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 exclaimed, “Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it!””

Ladislas Farago

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings)

War

More by Ladislas Farago

“There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is: ‘To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“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

Image

“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

Image

“The Battle of the Bulge is sometimes characterized as Hitler’s final desperate gamble, the last straw at which he grabbed. Nothing could be further…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“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

Image

“He lavished his affection on the dog and even had Willie, sitting up on a chair, dine with him at his table. The dog…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“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

Image

“One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“Bradley gave several reasons for putting Third Army on “A” ration when Patton’s projected moves required more than the unlimited “C.” Vast quantities of…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“When Patton now showed up on the Mary to welcome them, Sergeant Bill Pajewski punched Corporal Sam McCarthy in the ribs. “Man,” he whispered…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“Patton was sent on his long journey with the Psalm David had sung in the wilderness of Judah… O God, thou art my God;…

Ladislas Farago

Image

“Eisenhower’s tragedy was that he permitted himself to be pushed into what turned out to be a trap. He had succumbed to General George…

Ladislas Farago

Image

Explore all 33 Ladislas Farago quotes

More War quotes

The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…

Noam Chomsky

Image

For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests…

Wangari Maathai

Image

“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and…

Masaji Ishikawa

Image

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is…

Anonymous

Image

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,…

Irwin Shaw

Image

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

Jill Stein

Image

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

Donald Rumsfeld

Image

So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of…

Barack Obama

Image

I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to…

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Image

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

David Simon

Image

“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.…

Marilyn French

Image

Browse all 38,932 War quotes

War Quote by Ladislas Farago

Related quotes

More by Ladislas Farago

More War quotes