Difficult Quote by Wilhelm Keitel

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

“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

I do not think you can fault Abraham Lincoln for picking generals that did not work out, because, as he said to John Hay…

— William Lee Miller

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove…

— Robert E. Lee

I made all my generals out of mud.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Georges Clemenceau

I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's…

— James Zogby

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

— Peter Ustinov

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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