Habits Quote by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the…

— Frank McCourt

“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.”

— Noam Chomsky

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

— Georges Clemenceau

“My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I want to…

— Adolf Hitler

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

— Georges Clemenceau

We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant…

— Stephen Colbert

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

— Ben Bradlee

If you put on the military uniform, you're a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They're the ones who have been…

— H. W. Brands

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

— Christopher Vokes

“They will not face the fact that the military professionals, while some have ideas about society in general that are distorted and must be…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

— Zhuge Liang

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

— Napoleon Bonaparte