Quote by William T. Sherman

“I’m tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make…

— David Gunn

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

“The man attempted to salute and Renius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure…

— Conn Iggulden

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”

— Denis Johnson

“Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?' 'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin. 'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals…

— Graham Greene

“(Asked to explain the defeat, Adams put it succinctly: “In general, our Generals were out generalled.”) Washington”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“The marquis breathed heavily on his fingernails and polished them on the lapel of his coat. "I have always felt," he said, "that violence…

— Neil Gaiman

“The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader…

— Frank Herbert

“As far as he was concerned, there were only two kinds of soldiers. There were those who lost their heads at the sound of…

— W.E.B. Griffin

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing…

— Tim O'Brien