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In the second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals.
It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed.
I find that moral courage is the most valuable and most usually absent characteristic.
I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards — "You name them; I'll shoot them!"
Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1942)
I don't know what you think you're trying to do, but the krauts ought to pin a medal on you for helping them mess up discipline for us.
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore-house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
If you put the letter "S" in front of Hitler, then you have my opinion of him.
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?
Fatigue makes cowards of all of us.
War as I knew it (1947)
Do not take counsel of your fears.
Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate, because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange
If we accept them we will never win.
Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic
We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
Of all the many talks I had in Washington, none gave me such pleasure as that with you.
Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1942)
The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home.
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.
So forever in the future,
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter,
But to die again, once more.
Through A Glass, Darkly (1918)
Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen.
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do.
Speech to the Third Army (1944)