Many Decades Later, General George Patton’s Best Army Line on Attacking Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

Many Decades Later, General George Patton’s Best Army Line on Attacking Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

“When in doubt, attack.” The line has been handed to chess players and to Marc Antony on HBO, but it belongs, by reputation if not by transcript, to George S. Patton, who told his troops before North Africa, “We shall attack and attack until we are exhausted, and then we shall attack again.”