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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

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang

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

Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich. — Ian Kershaw

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

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu

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

The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers. — Richard Flanagan

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. — John Bolton

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. — Arthur Wellesley

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people. — Nelson Mandela

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

British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance. — Scott Anderson

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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. — Barbara Tuchman

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

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee

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

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. — Jay Samit

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

Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict less defeated than your opponent. — Steph Bennion

Alexander's top generals were about to tangle with one of history's toughest teenage girls. — James Romm

The Roman envoys replied that they would go where their own generals led them, not where bidden by their enemies. — Livy

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

read the brilliant compilation of testimonies in Leslie Kean's book: "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record." The — John DeSouza

T's one of history's many valuable lessons: the foot soldiers tend to be the casualties in any conflict, not the generals. — Mark Mills

Generals who can write always make me nervous. — Ben Bradlee

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