#command

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

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In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. ↗

— George Woodcock

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Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. ↗

— Oliver North

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