Quotes of: Patton Keyword

I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.

Dennis C. Blair

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Derrick Bell

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

David Douglas Duncan

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

David Korten

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

David Korten

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

David Korten

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Douglas MacArthur

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

Jim Lovell

Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

Jim Lovell

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

Chester A. Arthur

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Eugene Cernan

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

Jim Lovell

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

James Stockdale

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

Pat Robertson

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Robert Crippen

I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

Raymond Kelly

Shane Patton: There ain't nothing I can't do. No sky too high, no sea too rough, no muff too tough.

Lone Survivor

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

Patton

Patton: Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, then anything built by man can be overcome.

Patton