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To: don-o

Here is a different opinion from another great General named George:

“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”

George S. Patton


60 posted on 07/18/2011 5:01:42 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"! I choose LIBERTY and PALIN!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Great quote.


63 posted on 07/18/2011 5:05:08 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

The rules of this board come down on Washington’s side rather than Patton’s.


70 posted on 07/18/2011 5:20:25 PM PDT by don-o (Abolish FReepathons. Be a monthly donor.)
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