Generals Quotes

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

Money, Cost, Horses

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Great, Thought

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Win, Soldiers, Credit

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Lives, Next, Answer

I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
Colin Powell

Saying, Making, Progress

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen

Faith, True, Justice

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence

Books, Test, Taught

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov

Age, Grow, Four

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
David Ogilvy

Enemy, Ignore, Dangerous

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Arthur Wellesley

Business, Another, Shoot

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
John Bolton

War, Fight, Last

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Garry Kasparov

Country, Few, Vision

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman

Mind, Dead, Military

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
David Hackworth

Good, Care, Game

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
William Graham Sumner

Great, Again, Financial

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
Walter Ulbricht

Between, Secret, Knew

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.
William Odom

Political, Old, Point

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke of Wellington

Hope, Enemy, Said

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
Bill Kristol

Leadership, War, Government

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.
Franjo Tudjman

End, Another, Here

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
Cokie Roberts

Women, Men, Soldiers

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
Amy Goodman

War, Government, Retired

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
Adam Hochschild

War, Made, Victory

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild

Men, Today, Lie

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Paddy Chayefsky

War, Hell, Lead

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff

Great, Working, Team

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
Alfred Jodl

Character, Single, Him

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.
Michael Rostovtzeff

Life, Great, History

Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.
King George II

Hope, Mad, Bite

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