Best Officers Wisdom
483 Officers quotes by 391 unique authors
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
— John F. Kennedy
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the…
— George Mason
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The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers,…
— Ernest Borgnine
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where…
— James A. Michener
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The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in…
— Laurel Clark
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for…
— William Manchester
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Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
— Unknown Author
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I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
— Jack Dee
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The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence…
— Unknown Author
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I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to…
— Unknown Author
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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done,…
— Robert E. Lee
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The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
— Malcolm Forbes
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A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police…
— Lynn Westmoreland
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I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and…
— Kanye West
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Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was…
— David McCullough
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My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it,…
— Etgar Keret
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The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'
— Unknown Author
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I give no more paroles to British officers.
— Christopher Gadsden
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I, as school kid, was a member of the Civil Guard, something like today's NCC. We had to salute our officers who went round in…
— Dhirubhai Ambani
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No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating…
— Daryl Gates
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As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not…
— Erik Qualman
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the…
— Orson Pratt
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