Generals Quotes

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Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and… — Erich Maria Remarque
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe… — Michael Parenti
I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. — Adolf Hitler
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors… — Carl Sagan
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his… — F. W. de Klerk
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and… — Robert Dallek
When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in… — Marcy Kaptur
Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals. — King George II
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how… — David Hackworth
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to… — Michael Rostovtzeff
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great… — William Graham Sumner
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. — John Bolton
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a… — Adam Hochschild
It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing… — Arthur L. Herman
I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped… — John Henrik Clarke
Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier — Unknown Author
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war. — Barbara Tuchman

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