#generals

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

I made all my generals out of mud. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#i #made #mud #out

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. ↗

— Colin Powell

#clearing #defeat #generals #making #move

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#any #case #civilian #decisions #effort

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#bloodiest #day #first #generals #hell

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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#dead #generals #grip #hold #like

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

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