Generals Quotes
126 quotes by 106 authors
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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
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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
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Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen…
— Sibel Edmonds
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
— Amy Goodman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
— Graham Taylor
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All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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