George S. Patton Quotes

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the trade of Kings.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

It is hazardous to engage an enemy who longs rather for battle than for victory.

The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut by Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.