George S. Patton Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Rain, Army

• There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Mean, Army

  "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder". Book by Michael Savage. Chapter 1: "More Patton, Less Patent Leather", p. 4, 2005.

• May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

  George S. Patton

  Strength, Peace, War

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Ideas, Leader

  War As I Knew It (1947).

• Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Enemy

• Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.

  George S. Patton

  War, Tired, Enemy

• Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

  George S. Patton

  Suicide, Military, Moving

• To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.

  George S. Patton

  Enemy, Priceless, Conquer

• When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Land, Enemy

• To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.

  George S. Patton

  Successful, Winning, Men

• In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

  George S. Patton

  War, Blow, Ignorant

• You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Enemy

• Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

  George S. Patton

  Army, Enemy, Remember

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

• My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

  George S. Patton

  Moving, Men, Giving

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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