Army Quote by William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

— Anonymous

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

— George C. Marshall

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

— Douglas MacArthur

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

— Jalal Talabani

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

— Rick Riordan

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

— John Abizaid

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Few commanders in this war could function without arriving at a sensibility in which thousands of dead and wounded men could be waved away…

— Rick Atkinson

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying.…

— George Pickett

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last…

— Barbara W Tuchman