Quotes on the topic: Generals


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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.


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


I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.


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.'


I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.


I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.


Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.


I made all my generals out of mud.


Generals don't panic; then the troops never panic.