No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
ATTRIBUTION:
Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939), U.S. film director, writer, Edmund H. North, screenwriter, and Franklin J. Schaffner. General George S. Patton Jr. (George C. Scott), in Patton (film), opening speech in which General Patton addresses the audience as though they were his troops (1970).