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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.


Heinrich Himmler


#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.


Alfred Jodl


#army #atone #behind #character #discipline

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'


Duke of Wellington


#enemy #generals #his #hope #i

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice. [...] I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims. [...] We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html.


Mark L. Shurtleff


#death #death-penalty #executions #firing-squads #god

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.


William Odom


#beyond #come #context #decided #deterioration

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.


David Ogilvy


#dangerous #enemy #generals #ignore #people

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.


Michael Rostovtzeff


#confined #crises #generals #great #historical

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.


William Graham Sumner


#again #captains #commercial #conduct #enterprises

Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.


King George II


#generals #hope #i #mad #other

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.


Adolf Hitler


#generals #i #knights #like #middle






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