#commander

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.' ↗

— David Petraeus

#commander #confident #ever #going #i

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#enemy #his #main #opposing #own

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. ↗

— John McCain

#chief #commander #fully #i #i am

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#commanders #constitution #earnestly #fidelity #hungarian

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#ancient #battle #before #commander #era

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. ↗

— Eric Massa

#believe #candidacy #cheney #commander #david

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fifth-business #historians #infantry #orders #survival

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders. ↗

— John Buford

#cavalry #commanders #i #i believe #me