Top 285 Generals Quotes & Sayings

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.

Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Right on up and down the line. It was like a complete and total, not a total lie, but just like so much, it was like PR, in other words it was like okay, we've got to sell the war to the American people.

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

Only bad generals need heroes.

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

You know who has done a lot of questioning of generals? President Trump.

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to .

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

I like generals. I think generals are terrific. You know, they go through schools and sort of end up at the top of the pyramid. And it's like a test.

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

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

I made all my generals out of mud.

If you put on the military uniform, you're a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They're the ones who have been most successful at the soldier's trade.

The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

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

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I've seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations.

All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. He said, I have a secret plan, and then he said, um, I know more than all the generals about ISIS. And then he said, I'm going to call the generals to help me figure out a plan. And finally he said, I'm going to fire all the generals. He doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas.

When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Donald Trump says he knows more about ISIS than the generals. No, he doesn't.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.

We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

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

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

I know generals who disagree with [Barack] Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble.