American government Quote by Anonymous

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

— Christopher Vokes

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals…

— Robert Dallek

I don't think people realize how many decisions the president of the United States makes about military action.

— Ben Rhodes

Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.

— Robert Kagan

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

— Ayelet Shaked

That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have…

— Charles R. Chamberlain

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

— William Lee Miller

I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay…

— William Lee Miller

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

— Georges Clemenceau

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples…

— Joel Stein

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that…

— Paul Yingling