Crowns Quote by Alexander Pope

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a reason why they give the medals to the generals: it is because the world values leadership.

— Anonymous

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

— Herbert Kaufman

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than…

— Benjamin Franklin

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— William Faulkner

You may have won the war, but you will never take my crown

— Ronnie Radke

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble…

— Elizabeth Kenny

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

— Janet Morris

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

— Walt Disney

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

— Cleopatra

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service…

— Sun Tzu