Generals Quote by Georges Clemenceau Download Open image ““War is too important to be left to the generals”” — Georges Clemenceau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generals Military War
“Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict less defeated… — Steph Bennion Copy Share Image
“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has it occurred… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war.” But” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“We have more generals today than we did at the end of World War II, and more troops in Germany than during our occupation… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
“A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share
“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
“Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Iraq had forced massive changes to the Army's equipment, training, and strategy. But the most important legacy of the war had been cultural. The war had upended most of the service's basic assumption about how it should fight, undermining the Powell Doctrine with its emphasis on short, intense wars not replacing it with anything nearly so straightforward. Chiarelli wasn't sure… — David Cloud Copy Share
I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
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 admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war. — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share
We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen. — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
In 2001, we didn't have an army; we had remnants of a dissolved army that had no hope. Our generals had literally become busboys. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share
