America Quote by Robert E. Lee

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to…

— Robert E. Lee

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

— Noam Chomsky

We are bound to make mistakes.

— Martie Maguire

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“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

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

— Duke of Wellington

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

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

— Georges Clemenceau

We regret mistakes were made.

— Hillary Clinton

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

— Georges Clemenceau

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

— Anonymous