Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?

2 March 1945 reply to a message from General Dwight Eisenhower to bypass the German city of Trier because it would take four divisions to capture it, as quoted in the Introduction to War as I Knew it (1947) by George Smith Patton, Jr., with Paul Donal Harkins, p. 20