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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…
- 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…
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- Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I made all my generals out of mud. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.… — Leonard Cohen
- As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their… — Duke of Wellington
- Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals! — George III
- We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain
- In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:… — Sun Tzu
- Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
- The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the… — Sun Tzu
- When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it. — Duke of Wellington
- During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and… — Abraham Lincoln