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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
Generals are not to be too scrupulous. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Generals who can write always make me nervous. -- Ben Bradlee
Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war. -- Georges Clemenceau
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! -- Aristophanes
Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them. -- Christopher Vokes
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. -- Peter Ustinov
Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them. -- Helmut Schmidt
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it. -- Duke of Wellington
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. -- Adolf Hitler
Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other. -- Kofi Annan
We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands. -- Holland Smith
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed. -- David Lloyd George
When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that. Total power. Whether anything works or not is irrelevant. We work. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that. Total power. Whether anything works or not is irrelevant. We work. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander's successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight's opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them." - Valek -- Maria V. Snyder
I made all my generals out of mud. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I can make more generals, but horses cost money. -- Abraham Lincoln
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. -- John Bolton
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. -- Barbara Tuchman
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. -- David Ogilvy
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. -- Marianne Williamson
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
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
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
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
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy. -- Robert Dallek
I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did. -- John Henrik Clarke
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally. -- Curtis Jackson
I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals. -- Peter Ackroyd
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
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
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
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war. -- F. W. de Klerk
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
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
Only bad generals need heroes. -- Bertolt Brecht
In general, our generals were outgeneralled. -- John Adams
Not even generals can stop the rain. -- Jeff Shaara
Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
My generals are a parcel of post inspectors. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
War is too serious to be entrusted to generals -- Georges Clemenceau
War is too important to be left to the generals -- Georges Clemenceau
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses. -- Abraham Lincoln
Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals -- William Graham Sumner
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. -- Duke of Wellington
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. -- Harper Lee
Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals. -- King George II
Donald Trump says he knows more about ISIS than the generals. No, he doesn't. -- Hillary Clinton
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. -- Warren G. Bennis
Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals! -- George III
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. -- F. E. Adcock
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too. -- Alexander Pope
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. -- Robert Fisk
It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people. -- Nelson Mandela
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me. -- Graham Taylor
when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war. -- Pearl S. Buck
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers. -- Marlene Dietrich
Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans. -- George S. Patton
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense. -- Peter R. Mansoor
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. -- Amy Goodman
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals. -- Rich Lowry
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. -- Zhuge Liang
If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed? -- Mother Teresa
If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals? -- Mother Teresa
I know generals who disagree with [Barack] Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble. -- Eric Bolling
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. -- Barbara Kingsolver
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. -- Anton Chekhov
Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS. -- Donald Trump
We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. -- Jay Samit
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do. -- Abraham Polonsky
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall -- Harry S. Truman
There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to . -- Kimberly Guilfoyle
I'm a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur and General George Patton.We have a few generals that have been so incredible to me. Now we have 200. -- Donald Trump
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
The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible. -- John Steinbeck
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. -- Thomas Sydenham
Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence. -- Nhat Hanh
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
[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience. -- Edward Gibbon
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals. -- Abraham Lincoln
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas. -- George Wald
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
The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves. -- Pierre Trudeau
I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it's embarrassing for America. -- Donald Trump
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive. -- Anthony Burgess
I like generals. I think generals are terrific. You know, they go through schools and sort of end up at the top of the pyramid. And it's like a test. -- Donald Trump
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
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
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v. -- Jim Morrison
.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot' -- Carl Sagan
Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News. -- Jay Leno
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
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
When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front. -- Marcy Kaptur
It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around. -- Adolf Hitler
I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people. -- Barack Obama
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
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals! -- Abraham Lincoln
You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and they'll - we'll get together, we wanna get the right stuff. -- Donald Trump
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is? -- Calvin Trillin
New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates. -- Jimmy Fallon
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. -- Edward Abbey
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. -- Mark Twain

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