Famous Quotes - Tags - General

  • 1. It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
    2. Get mad, then get... More
  • A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. More
  • A Constitution should be short and obscure. More
  • A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. More
  • A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists ... and all... More
  • All Gaul is divided into three parts. More
  • And you too, Brutus.
    [Et tu, Brute.] More
  • As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of... More
  • As to moral courage, I have rarely met with two o’clock in the morning courage; I mean... More
  • Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. More
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them... More
  • Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army. More
  • Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing... More
  • England is a nation of shopkeepers. More
  • Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence... More
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final... More
  • Experience is the teacher of all things. More
  • Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn... More
  • Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. More
  • For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France. More
  • Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about... More
  • France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! More
  • France has more need of me than I have need of France. More
  • Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is... More
  • Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence... More
  • History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. More
  • How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? More
  • Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his... More
  • I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along... More
  • I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne. More
  • I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize,... More
  • I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime. More
  • I came, I saw, I conquered. More
  • I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has... More
  • I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter? More
  • I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent... More
  • I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country... More
  • I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to... More
  • I made all my generals out of mud. More
  • I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them. More
  • If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for... More
  • If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for... More
  • If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If... More
  • In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. More
  • In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other... More
  • It does not disturb me that those whom I pardon are said to have deserted me so that
    they... More
  • It is magnificent, but it is not war.
    [C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.] More
  • It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of... More
  • It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. More
  • It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of... More
  • Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided.... No personal considerations should stand in the... More
  • Like all successful politicians I married above myself. More
  • Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old... More
  • Long live Free Quebec!
    (Vive le Québec Libre! More
  • Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. More
  • May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. More
  • Men, you are all marksmen—don’t one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. More
  • Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent. More
  • My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. More
  • Napoleon has not been conquered by men. He was greater than any of us. God punished him because... More
  • Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will... More
  • No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. More
  • Not tonight, Josephine. More
  • Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. More
  • Now she’s like everyone else. More
  • O divine art of sublety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible... More
  • Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlesly vacillating... More
  • One does not arrest Voltaire. More
  • Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty,... More
  • Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then... More
  • People willingly believe what they want to believe. More
  • Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and... More
  • Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated... More
  • The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. More
  • The die is cast. More
  • The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only... More
  • The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and... More
  • The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone... More
  • The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence... More
  • The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. More
  • There are two levers for moving men—interest and fear. More
  • There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to... More
  • There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. More
  • Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting; he captures their... More
  • They were not thinking of the means by which they could win, but how they could
    make use of... More
  • To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms. More
  • We are not here to laugh. More
  • We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has... More
  • We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system,... More
  • When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a... More
  • When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle- field, they have all one rank in my eyes. More
  • When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. More
  • You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last... More
  • You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. More
  • ‘Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. More

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