#generals

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#credit #generally #generals #get #soldiers

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

#four #generals #grow #hats #never

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#generals #government #more #parade #posing

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

#bay #beltway #care #fervor #game

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

#create #did #generals #great #had

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

#generals #last #like #politicians #tendency

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#answer #doctors #even #generals #lives

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

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational

I can make more generals, but horses cost money. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #horses #i #i can #make

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

#chancellor #federal #foreign #generals #german