General Quotes

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As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God,… — Warren Austin
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General… — James Longstreet
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. — Bernard Law Montgomery
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house… — Sam Elliott
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates -… — Timothy Garton Ash
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are… — David McCullough
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… — Henry James
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's… — Lafcadio Hearn
There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in… — Leroy Chiao
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me… — Orson Scott Card
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action.… — Mao Zedong
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate. — Daniel J. Bernstein
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing… — Thomas Jefferson
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle… — Leon Trotsky
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is… — George Eliot
The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be… — James Fitzjames Stephen
It was just one year ago that the world saw this new, invigorated United Nations in action as this Council stood fast against aggression and… — George H. W. Bush
The news media in general are liberals. — Barbara Walters
Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time… — George W. Bush
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same… — Alexander Hamilton
I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. — Ambrose Bierce
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading… — Ed Crane

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