You're a very good man, but you wanna guard against being too conservative. Remember what Frederick the Great said: L'audace! L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

General George Patton (George C. Scott)

15 seconds sound clip from the Patton (1970) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:16:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- If your conscience will not permit you to conduct this operation, I'll relieve you and find somebody who can.

- General, it's your privilege to relieve me anytime you want to.

- Well, this match will not be postponed.

- You have any questions?

- No, sir.

- You're a very good man, but you wanna guard against being too conservative. Remember what Frederick the Great said: L'audace! L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

- Go on, have a drink.

- Excuse me, sir. I won't be drinking for the next couple of days.

- If anything happens to those men, I'd like to be there with them.

- Well, you're not going, so forget about it.

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