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The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II QUOTES

1 " Americans have seen fit to elect twelve generals to the U.S. presidency, but even before there was a United States of America generals ruled the earth. Take "

― Winston Groom , The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

2 " As we will see in the following pages, peacetime is not always kind to generals and they do not necessarily do well outside their task of generaling. Perhaps that is because during war they become as close to gods on earth as we are ever likely to see. Patton "

― Winston Groom , The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

3 " I have lived 19 years but … amount to very little more than when I was a baby,” he told his father as Thanksgiving approached. “I am fare in every thing but good in nothing. It seems to be that for a person to amount to some thing they should be good in at least one thing. I some times fear that I am one of these darned dreamers … who is always going to succeed but never does,” adding that if that were the case “it would have been far more merciful if I had died ten years ago than to be forced to live—a failure.”27 At "

― Winston Groom , The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

4 " So as through a glass and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises
Many names—but always me. And I see not in my blindness
What the objects were I wrought
But as God rules o’er our bickerings
It was through his will I fought. So forever in the future,
Shall I battle as of yore
Dying to be born a fighter,
But to die again once more.5 It was but one of a number of experiences such as this that caused Patton to maintain a continuing belief that in some earlier incarnation he had been a part of powerful, ancient armies, even though he was not a mystic but a practicing Episcopalian.6 "

― Winston Groom , The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II