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When I Want My Men To Remember Something Important, To Really Make It Stick, I Give It To Them Double Dirty. It May Not Sound Nice To Some Bunch Of Little Old Ladies At An Afternoon Tea Party, But It Helps My Soldiers To Remember. You Can't Run An Army Without Profanity; And It Has To Be Eloquent Profanity. An Army Without Profanity Couldn't Fight Its Way Out Of A Piss-soaked Paper Bag. As For The Types Of Comments I Make, Sometimes I Just, By God, Get Carried Away With My Own Eloquence.

-George S. Patton

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When I Want My Men To Remember Something Important, To Really Make It Stick, I Give It To Them Double Dirty. It May Not Sound Nice To Some Bunch Of Little Old Ladies At An Afternoon Tea Party, But It Helps My Soldiers To Remember. You Can't Run An Army Without Profanity; And It Has To Be Eloquent Profanity. An Army Without Profanity Couldn't Fight Its Way Out Of A Piss-soaked Paper Bag. As For The Types Of Comments I Make, Sometimes I Just, By God, Get Carried Away With My Own Eloquence.

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