Patton's "dumb bastard"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks to Garson and Sam and Jon and Victor for all the great information about the Patton/dumb bastard quote.  But no one seems to have noticed that in the Yale Book of Quotations I cite the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, Jan. 1, 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

Fred Shapiro

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