| | * "We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."<ref>http://www.finedictionary.com/cattle%20drive.html</ref> | | * "We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."<ref>http://www.finedictionary.com/cattle%20drive.html</ref> |
| | * "Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians."<ref>[https://quotefancy.com/quote/815392/George-S-Patton-Jr-Politicians-are-the-lowest-form-of-life-on-earth-Liberal-Democrats-are George S. Patton Jr Quote:]</ref> | | * "Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians."<ref>[https://quotefancy.com/quote/815392/George-S-Patton-Jr-Politicians-are-the-lowest-form-of-life-on-earth-Liberal-Democrats-are George S. Patton Jr Quote:]</ref> |
| | * "Chaplain, I am a strong believer in Prayer. 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. Up to now, in the Third Army, God has been very good to us. We have never retreated; we have suffered no defeats, no famine, no epidemics. This is because a lot of people back home are praying for us. We were lucky in Africa, in Sicily, and in Italy. Simply because people prayed. But we have to pray for ourselves, too. A good soldier is not made merely by making him think and work. There is something in every soldier that goes deeper than thinking or working—it’s his ‘guts.’ It is something that he has built in there: it is a world of truth and power that is higher than himself. Great living is not all output of thought and work. A man has to have intake as well. I don’t know what you call it, but I call it religion, prayer, or God."<ref>https://www.historyonthenet.com/when-patton-enlisted-the-entire-third-army-to-pray-for-fair-weather</ref> | | * "Chaplain, I am a strong believer in Prayer. 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. Up to now, in the Third Army, God has been very good to us. We have never retreated; we have suffered no defeats, no famine, no epidemics. This is because a lot of people back home are praying for us. We were lucky in Africa, in Sicily, and in Italy. Simply because people prayed. But we have to pray for ourselves, too. A good soldier is not made merely by making him think and work. There is something in every soldier that goes deeper than thinking or working—it’s his ‘guts.’ It is something that he has built in there: it is a world of truth and power that is higher than himself. Great living is not all output of thought and work. A man has to have intake as well. I don’t know what you call it, but I call it religion, prayer, or God."<ref>https://www.historyonthenet.com/when-patton-enlisted-the-entire-third-army-to-pray-for-fair-weather</ref> |