"Vote early and vote often."
— Al Capone

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun, then you can with just a kind word."
— Al Capone

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"When in doubt, ATTACK!"
— George S. Patton Jr.

"May god have mercy for my enemies because I won't."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way!"
— George S. Patton

"Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he s not he s a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some it takes an hour. For some it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor his sense of duty to his country and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"
— George S. Patton Jr.

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood"
— George S. Patton Jr.

"There are three ways that men get what they want by planning by working and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well trained troops to carry it out that s working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything That s where prayer comes in."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. "
— George S. Patton Jr.

"A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. "
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences."
— George S. Patton Jr.

"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more"
— George S. Patton Jr.

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."
— George S. Patton Jr.

""Pressure makes dimonds" "
— General George S. Patton

"All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. "
— George S. Patton Jr.

"An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit"
— George S. Patton Jr.

"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country"
— General George S. Patton Jr.

""...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability."
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— General George S. Patton Jr.

""...continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.""
— George S. Patton Jr. (War As I Knew It)

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"A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it."
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— george patton

"Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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— General Douglas MacArthur

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. "
— George Washington

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"
— Theodore Roosevelt

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
— Theodore Roosevelt