Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense. — Peter R. Mansoor Copy Share Image
Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me. — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
“So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is?… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Four generals Set our for Iran. With the first one, war did not agree. The second never won a victory. For the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“One of the things we haven’t mentioned about the boss so far in this book is his presence. Any time Donald Trump… — Corey R. Lewandowski Copy Share Image
The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Iraq had forced massive changes to the Army's equipment, training, and strategy. But the most important legacy of the war had been… — David Cloud Copy Share Image
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“It began to seem that the generals had got us into something they had no business doing.” — Cornelius Ryan Copy Share Image
