Generals Quotes

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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which… — Garry Kasparov
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as… — Adam Hochschild
Get yourself a few â€˜Dime a Dozen Generals,â€™ bid high in the â€˜former statesmen lobby auctionâ€™, and put in your pocket one or two â€˜ex-congressmen… — Sibel Edmonds
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives… — Harlan Ellison
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
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly… — James A. Michener
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there… — Calvin Trillin
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning. — Walter Ulbricht
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. — Amy Goodman
Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed… — Peter Ackroyd
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it… — Curtis Jackson
I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S.… — Mary Todd Lincoln
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all… — George Horace Lorimer
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the… — Anthony Burgess
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me. — Graham Taylor
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My generals are a parcel of post inspectors. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals… — Holland Smith

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