Back Quote by Bill Pullman

There was more fuss made about Colin Powell being made general in America than there is about Othello being a general in the play.

— Adrian Lester

“The New World is not a refuge for the indolent, the criminal, the undesirable of the old, but a young man who has been…

— P.D. James

“The only end in sight was Yossarian's own, and he might have remained in the hospital until doomsday had it not been for that…

— Joseph Heller

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He…

— Winston Churchill

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in…

— Joshua A. Norton

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“retiring with the officer’s equivalent of a general”

— Jack Shane

Character is victory organized.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

— John F. Kennedy

“Glory and patriotism had been exchanged for mud and blood, and once they annulled each other all that was left was duty. A soldier…

— C.M. Curtis

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

— Henry George Bohn