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One bad general is worth two good ones. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march! — Maxcy Gregg

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. — Desiderius Erasmus

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent. — Stephen Covey

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it. — James Longstreet

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living. — Brendan Behan

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese! — Duke Of Wellington

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. — Sun Tzu

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm! — Robert McNamara

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates. — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm just giving advice. — Yunosuke Yoshinaga

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything — Frida Kahlo

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. — Sun Tzu

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. — David K. E. Bruce

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. — Sun Tzu

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner! — John S. Mosby

There's many a boy here today that looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

General William T. Sherman, Address, 1880 — John Podlaski

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general. — Winston Churchill

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. — Isaac R. Trimble

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war. — Benito Mussolini

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? — Napoleon Bonaparte

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it. — Kaoru Kurimoto

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance. — Jane Swisshelm

A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. — Paul Yingling

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired. — Sydney Biddle Barrows

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. — George B. McClellan

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock