The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
Glenn Beck

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
Rodney Dangerfield

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Douglas MacArthur

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake