Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.

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Patton, George Smith. Address to the Troops. 5 June 1944. England, UK. Address.

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Patton, George Smith. Quoted in The Unknown Patton. Written by Charles M. Province. Random House, 1988.