Chiefs Quotes · Page 3

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

— William Shakespeare

Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.

— Oliver North

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

— Jack Miller

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

— Sitting Bull

The chief business of America is business.

— Calvin Coolidge

Hail to the chief in triumph advances.

— Walter Scott

President means chief servant

— Mahatma Gandhi

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

— Scott Walker

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

— Bertrand Russell

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

— Mary Stewart

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

— George W. Bush

When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

— Francis M. Lyman

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

— Richard Jefferson

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

— Homer

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep…

— Winston Churchill

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him…

— William Howard Taft

this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look…

— Julianne Malveaux

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

— Larry Gelbart

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

— Malcolm Forbes

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

— Zig Ziglar

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that…

— Joseph Epstein

The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become…

— William A. Rusher

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself,…

— Horatio Nelson

I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I…

— Phil Roe

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own…

— Alexander Alekhine

I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from…

— John F. Kennedy

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications…

— Eric Hoffer

There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People…

— Benjamin Harrison

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men…

— H. L. Mencken

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass…

— Dean Koontz

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but…

— Celia Green

One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical…

— Chris Hadfield

I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or…

— Bertrand Russell

The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in…

— Erich von Manstein

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

— Evan Esar