War Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

— Georges Clemenceau

“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

“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

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

“But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner”

— Shusaku Endo

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

— Cornelius Ryan

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

— Georges Clemenceau

“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

“The generals fought among themselves. Such times always bred masterless men, and everyone within the Horde’s reach suffered.”

— Katherine Arden

“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

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

— Ayelet Shaked

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

— Christopher Vokes