#commander

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. ↗

— John Yoo

#applied #bush #commanders #conflict #conventions

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#fight #first #know #look #out

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. ↗

— Kit Bond

#chief #commander #did #enough #experience

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#behave #chief #commander #how #i

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. ↗

— George S. Patton

#donnas #must #prima #prima donnas #successful

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ↗

— Richard Perle

#assign #commander #computer #could #done

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

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

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