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Patton: Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost, and will never lose a war... because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

Patton: The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill *their* blood. Shoot *them* in the belly.

Patton: 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.

Patton: This is a barracks; it's not a bordello.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel: You can afford to be an optimist. I can't.

Patton: [referring to Rommel's book, 'Infantry Attacks' or 'Infanterie greift an'] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!

Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: You know General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting.
Patton: It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know.

Patton: Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

Clergyman: I was interested to see a Bible by your bed. You actually find time to read it?
Patton: I sure do. Every goddamn day.

General Alfred Jodl: This is the end... the end.

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Movie Quotes

1970s Oscar Winners for Best Picture:
1979: Kramer vs Kramer
1978: The Deer Hunter
1977: Annie Hall
1976: Rocky
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: The Godfather Part II
1973: The Sting
1972: The Godfather
1971: The French Connection
1970: Patton

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