79 Years Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line Is Still the Greatest Military Quote in Armed Forces History

The 1947 book got it in fourteen words; the internet adds words it never printed. Patton's good-plan-now doctrine rebuilt II Corps in days, crossed France at 150 miles in 19 hours, and pivoted a quarter-million men ninety degrees to reach Bastogne — the perfect plan would have arrived too late.