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#generals

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The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?


Christopher Hitchens


#chicken-hawks #love

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.


Garry Kasparov


#badly #calculate #colonels #could #country

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.


Leonard Cohen


#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

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

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


David Ogilvy


#dangerous #enemy #generals #ignore #people

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

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.


Cokie Roberts


#declaration #diminished #generals #independence #men

I made all my generals out of mud.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#i #made #mud #out

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






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