War Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“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

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Noam Chomsky

“Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“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

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

“... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will…

— Edward Gibbon

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

“It began to seem that the generals had got us into something they had no business doing.”

— Cornelius Ryan

“His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as…

— Aubrey Menen

“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