Generals Quotes · Page 2

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

— Aristophanes

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Anonymous

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

— William Graham Sumner

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

— Abraham Lincoln

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

— Georges Clemenceau

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

— Graham Taylor

“But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner”

— Shusaku Endo

I know generals who disagree with [Barack] Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble.

— Eric Bolling

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

— Alexander Pope

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .”

— Abraham Lincoln

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

— Warren G. Bennis

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

— John Bolton

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

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

I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are…

— Thomas Jefferson

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the…

— William Lee Miller

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

“Four generals Set our for Iran. With the first one, war did not agree. The second never won a victory. For the…

— Bertolt Brecht

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

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,…

— Adam Hochschild

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

My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even…

— Ralph Abraham

I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander’s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen…

— Maria V. Snyder

“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been…

— William Faulkner

“I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will say I would leave many of the decisions of some of the things you mentioned to the generals, the admirals,…

— Donald Trump

We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement…

— Stephen Colbert

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

“I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With…

— William Styron

“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

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

— Abraham Lincoln

Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.

— Dick Strawbridge

You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.

— Jake Tapper

Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier

— Anonymous

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of…

— Peter Ustinov