Children Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

“Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

— Howard Tayler

“We should all look out for cobblers who might have been great generals. Which means focusing on introverted children, whose talents are too often…

— Susan Cain

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of…

— Evelyn Waugh

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

— Peter Ustinov

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“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

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar…

— Kofi Annan

“Our people are not calculated to be confined in garrisons or kept in any particular service; they soon grow troublesome and uneasy by reflecting…

— Richard M. Ketchum

We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of…

— Erik Prince

“Major: you have the honor to report that the numbers of men now under your command qualifies you for promotion to colonel. But you…

— Donald Harington