Patton never said this: "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."
The man who is really responsible for it, is Carlo d'Este from "A Genius for War"
Re: Now THAT'S fascinating!!!
Patton never said this: "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."
The man who is really responsible for it, is Carlo d'Este from "A Genius for War"
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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