Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. — F. E. Adcock Copy Share Image
Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I'm not against pulling down our statues of Confederate generals and Confederate leaders. — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them. — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it. — Duke of Wellington 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
“Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of… — Patrick Hall Copy Share Image
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“The generals. They’re all fucking men.” “I thought Souther was the only—” “I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it… — Holland Smith Copy Share Image
You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about this, I mean, I'll take the admirals and I'll take the generals any day over the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“There had been reports in recent days that Trump wanted a general to manage his office; generals appeal to him, perhaps because… — Amy Davidson Sorkin Copy Share Image
“The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“...generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Read that Asian women were bedroom generals. Some people think that means they're great in bed, but that's not the issue. They're… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal?… — Wilhelm Keitel 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
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict… — Steph Bennion Copy Share Image
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie… — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
“himself standing before one of the most decorated and powerful generals in the world. The black chair turned slowly as the large… — Leanne Davis Copy Share Image
“We have more generals today than we did at the end of World War II, and more troops in Germany than during… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
“But the damage done to the Army command structure would be long in healing. If a new war came someday, there would… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
“Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
![“When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about this, I mean, I'll take the admirals and I'll take the generals any day over the political hacks that I see that have led our country so brilliantly over the last 10 years with their knowledge. OK? Because look at the mess that we're in.” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/123/donald-trump-18_admiral_when-secretary-hillary-clinton-talks-abo_847061.jpg)
