Army Quote by Ashraf Ghani

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

— Erik Prince

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

— Christopher Vokes

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

— Georges Clemenceau

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

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

— Neil Sheehan

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

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

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Georges Clemenceau

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

— Peter R. Mansoor