“Have taken Trier with two divisions. What do you want me to do? Give it back?”

— George S. Patton

Reply to a message from General Dwight Eisenhower to bypass the German city of Trier because it would take four divisions to capture it (2 March 1945), as quoted in the Introduction to War as I Knew it (1947) by George Smith Patton, Jr., with Paul Donal Harkins, p. 20

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United States Army general 1885–1945

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