#commander

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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

— David Petraeus

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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. ↗

— Sally Ride

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

— John McCain

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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

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As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. ↗

— John Andre

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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

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Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

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I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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