GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.


QUOTATIONS


"A good plan, violently executed now,
is better than a perfect plan next week."

“A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.”

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser,
this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”

“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”

“By perseverance, study, and eternal desire,
any man can become great.”

“Do everything you ask of those you command.”

“Do more than is required of you.”

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity.”

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy.
Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.”

“I always believe in being prepared,
even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.”

“I am a soldier,
I fight where I am told,
and I win where I fight.”

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

“If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.”

“In case of doubt, attack.”

“It’s the unconquerable soul of man,
not the nature of the weapon he uses,
that insures victory.”

“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. ”

“Live for something ~ rather than die for nothing.”

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”

“Moral courage is the most valuable
and usually the most absent characteristic in men.”

“Never let the enemy pick the battle site.”

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”

“Say what you mean and mean what you say.”

“Success is how you bounce on the bottom.”

“The leader must be an actor."

“The soldier is the army.”

“There is only one type of discipline, perfect discipline.”

“War is simple, direct, and ruthless.”

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.”

“You’re never beaten until you admit it.”

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

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

"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."

"An Army is a team; lives, sleeps, eats, fights as a team.
This individual heroic stuff is a lot of crap."

"War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity."

"No sane man is unafraid in battle,
but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage."

"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."

"In war the only sure defense is offense,
and the efficiency of the offense
depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it."

"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"Wars might be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
It is the spirit of the men who leads that gains the victory."

"… many, who should know better,
think that wars can be decided by soulless machines,
rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men."


"Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than,
as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane."

"An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undue eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war."

"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

"The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare."

"Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little."

very well said vanessa, not enough is done to show the brave men and women of the armed forces just how thankfull we are for what they do for our freedoms.

if it wasnt for them things wouldnt be how they are now

i send a great big thank you to them all

Thank-you, my fiancee is Army and going back to Iraq May,2009 and I'm National Guard going active in March....Might be deployed after August don't know yet....

pls thank them for me

thank you for keeping me and my family safe

thank you dear Jason

the very least we can do

is to thank them

and the best thing we can do

is send them good vibes and pray always

and to be thankful for the freedoms

that we often take so casually and lightly

those very same freedoms that many others

have absolutely no clue of

thanks for checking in dear Lady


our heartfelt thanks and affections

go out to you and your fiance

You are in our hearts and prayers always


Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment
thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

Amen

by crosby ~ stills ~ nash & young


Find the cost of freedom,
buried in the ground,
Mother Earth will swallow you,
Lay your body down.

what are their names ?.......

by david crosby & company


I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand.

Tell me what are their names,
And on what street do they live?
I'd like to ride right over
This afternoon and give
Them a piece of my mind
About peace for mankind
Peace is not
An awful lot
To ask.

where have all the flowers gone?


(PETE SEEGER/JOE HICKERSON) (1956-'60)


Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the flowers gone?
The girls have picked them ev'ry one.
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the young girls gone?
They've taken husbands, every one.
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the young men gone?
They're all in uniform.
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
They've gone to graveyards, every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the graveyards gone?
They're covered with flowers, every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them, every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

I will...thank you

"when the power of love
overcomes the love of power,
we will know peace..."

by Mr. Jimi Hendrix

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/spangle.htm


The Star Spangled Banner

(composed by Francis Scott Key, "In Defense of Fort McHenry"
in September 1814.
Congress proclaimed it the U.S. National Anthem in 1931 --

history follows



"Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? "


On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?


Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

History: In 1814, about a week after the city of Washington had been badly burned, British troops moved up to the primary port at Baltimore Harbor in Maryland. Frances Scott Key visited the British fleet in the Harbor on September 13th to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes who had been captured during the Washington raid. The two were detained on the ship so as not to warn the Americans while the Royal Navy attempted to bombard Fort McHenry. At dawn on the 14th, Key noted that the huge American flag, which now hangs in the Smithsonian's American History Museum, was still waving and had not been removed in defeat. The sight inspired him to write a poem entitled Defense of Fort McHenry; later the poem was set to music that had been previously composed for another song by a Mr. Smith. The end result was the inspiring song now considered the national anthem of the United States of America. It was accepted as such by public demand for the next century or so, but became even more accepted as the national anthem during the World Series of Baseball in 1917 when it was sung in honor of the brave armed forces fighting in the Great War. The World Series performance moved everyone in attendance, and after that it was repeated for every game.
Finally, on March 3, 1931, the American Congress proclaimed it as the national anthem, 116 years after it was first written.

omg your words are like gold! thank you so much! i would do it all again and again....im so glad you love your freedom!


SEMPER FI!

T.TURNBOW
USMC

thank you so very much

semperfiguy for stopping by

You and the other dedicated Soldiers are so awesome

it is so important to not lose sight

of how precious our freedom really is,

and

the sacrifices that are continually being made

to help keep our country truly free

and to bring peace to all other nations


I do appreciate you

and all that you have done

To our Men & Women of the Armed Forces,,, Blessed Be,,,

My love to all

if anyone would like to correspond via snail mail you can e-mail me for a soldier's address....he's a good friend of my son's g/f and we write to him or just drop him a card here and there...he says any little note from "home" is greatly appreciated and read and reread several times over...he has another year over there at this point...

brenda

just sending some love and prayers for our troops


also keeping tenderly close to heart and prayer

the sacrifices they make to insure our freedom

the injuries that surviving soldiers have suffered

like "JustKev" in Florida


and Semperfiguy in Missouri


and many others whose stories i do not know






also praying for the families of the troops

for the souls of our departed loved ones,


and prayers for our world's leaders

that they will be wise and loving

and will put their own greed far behind them

and will care about the soldiers they put in harm's way

for the innocents who are the casualties of war

and for the entire rest of the world ~

lay down once and for all

the arms of hatred and misunderstanding

I tip my hat to the keepers of THIS U.S. of A.

YOU men and women who live to FIGHT and DIE for all of us back here in our nice homes, NOT in FEAR.

Because YOU keep all of safe.....THANK YOU ALL!!!!!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL, and KEEP YOU ALL SAFE.

From one man here,,,I RESPECT YOU AND HONOR ALL OF YOU!

Live free, Live long, and NEVER DIE!