Commanders Quotes · Page 3

I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander,…

— Anita Sarkeesian

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy…

— Winston Churchill

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

— Sun Tzu

Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing…

— Dina Temple-Raston

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

— Wesley Clark

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending…

— Hillary Clinton

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a…

— Charles Duhigg

The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting…

— Andrew Bacevich

There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you…

— Benjamin Carson

The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security…

— Chuck Hagel

As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and…

— Ted Cruz

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the…

— Elie Wiesel

Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of…

— Erwin Rommel

Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander…

— Hal Moore

Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared…

— Plutarch

“You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or…

— Steven Pressfield

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom…

— John Pilger

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not…

— Norman Mailer

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it…

— Ignatius of Loyola

The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal…

— Alexander Hamilton

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'…

— Catherine Wilson

I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names…

— Anita Sarkeesian

But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across…

— Peter Kropotkin

The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And…

— Lindsey Graham

Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller…

— Plutarch

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism.…

— Lindsey Graham

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president…

— Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump is great at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate and he'd be a chaos president. He would not be…

— Renee Montagne

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander…

— Tim Kaine

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

— Ani DiFranco

“Wanaume wanaojiua kwa sababu ya mapenzi ni wanawake; wanawake wanaojiua kwa sababu ya fedha ni wanaume.”

— Panthera Tigrisi

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our…

— James Long

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law…

— Matthew Henry

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

— Michael Catt

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

— Iwane Matsui

I don't even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that's really douchey. I think of myself as just like…

— Kesha

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

— John Yoo