Commanders Quotes
48 quotes by 42 authors
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Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons...We have sources that tell us that…
— George W. Bush
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The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that…
— Mao Zedong
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The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a…
— Pete Souza
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then…
— A. A. Gill
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders…
— Algernon Sidney
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If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.
— John Buford
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Coalition forces have encountered serious violence in some areas of Iraq. Our military commanders report that this violence is being insticated by three groups.
— George W. Bush
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do.…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
— George S. Patton
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Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
— Evgeny Morozov
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I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call…
— Orson Scott Card
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As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders are going to…
— Julie Garwood
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Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders…
— Kristin Cashore
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We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly,…
— Robert Jordan
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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and…
— Rick Atkinson
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