Generals Quotes
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When the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
— Pearl S. Buck
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
— Marianne Williamson
Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
— Alexander Pope
If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?
— Mother Teresa
Generals don't panic; then the troops never panic.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people ... And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
— Abraham Polonsky
Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.
— King George II
Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.
— Georges Clemenceau
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
Not even generals can stop the rain.
— Jeff Shaara
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
— Robert Fisk
As the plans of march made by great generals in
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
You boys ain't got it so bad," he said to his rigid squadmates. "You oughta see how we treat the generals, if you think you's bad off.
— Kurt Vonnegut
If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
— Mother Teresa
Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.
— Helmut Schmidt
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.
— Christopher Vokes
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
— Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
— Adolf Hitler
It's war that makes generals
— Seth Godin
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.
— Glen Cook
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
— Arthur Wellesley
Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.
— George S. Patton
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
— Warren G. Bennis
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
— Graham Taylor
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
— David Ogilvy
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Only bad generals need heroes.
— Bertolt Brecht
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
— Harry S. Truman
Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
— Nicolas Chamfort
My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
(Asked to explain the defeat, Adams put it succinctly: "In general, our Generals were out generalled.") Washington
— Joseph J. Ellis
War is too important to be left to the generals
— Georges Clemenceau
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
John Adams commented after one disastrous defeat, In general, our Generals were outgeneralled.
— Anonymous
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
— Duke Of Wellington
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
— Anton Chekhov
Lincoln discovered Generals Grant and Sherman. Roosevelt had Eisenhower and Bradley. I found David Petraeus and Ray Odierno.
— George W. Bush
Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
— Abraham Lincoln
War is too serious to be entrusted to generals
— Georges Clemenceau
Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
I made all my generals out of mud.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If the enemy begins to love one of the king's generals, the king may half suspect that his general is turning traitor.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.
— Sheldon Rampton
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
— F. E. Adcock
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
— Peter Ustinov
Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
— Patrick Hennessey
It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.
— Noam Chomsky
Alexander's top generals were about to tangle with one of history's toughest teenage girls.
— James Romm
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
— Aristophanes
We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
— Ben Bradlee
