George S. Patton Quotes

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

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

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.

There is nothing better than attacking your enemies and taking their property and women. That is the joy of life.

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

I killed a Spaniard with my own hand, like a jackrabbit.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

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

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.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

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

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

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

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

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

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

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.