Quote by Ladislas Farago

“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

“And what’s happened to you?” Patton asks the young man. His name is Pvt. Paul Bennett. He has been in the army four years,…

— Bill O'Reilly

“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

“At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers’ wives with the words: ‘My, what pretty widows you’re going to make.”

— Andrew Roberts

“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

“Carey recalled Tillman turning to him and tapping him on the shoulder. "Look who's coming up the road!" he said incredulously. In a scene…

— Patrick K. O'Donnell

“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

“While Middleton was in an inner office with the commander, his driver slumped in a chair outside to catch a few minutes’ sleep. No…

— John Willard Toland

“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 is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once…

— George S. Patton

“The war had made him see that not everything was quite as black and white as he’d once thought. Most people were neither all…

— Hillary Adrienne Stern