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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… — Leonard Cohen
• As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list… — 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… — Mark Twain
• In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in… — 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… — Sun Tzu
• When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out… — Duke of Wellington
• During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant… — Abraham Lincoln

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