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Generals Quotes

Leadership, war, and history

One quote insists it isn't the Business of generals to fight each other directly, a wry comment on military hierarchy.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Abraham Lincoln

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

Quotes by Walter Ulbricht

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. They actually headquartered the Iraq Ba'ath Party and all of their escaped generals in Damascus.

Quotes by Malcolm Nance

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

Quotes by Erik Prince

Another Quotes

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

Quotes by Duke of Wellington

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

Quotes by Ayelet Shaked

Frequently Asked Questions

What does one generals quote say about Cold War-era secrecy?
It describes how the West German public would have reacted strongly had they known about closed-door meetings involving the federal chancellor, an American official named McCoy, and foreign military generals, treating the secrecy itself as the notable point.
What historical conflict does one quote analyze regarding generals and regional politics?
It offers a factual assessment that Syria, under Bashar al-Assad, allowed Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq to be facilitated and coordinated from Syrian territory during the insurgency, presented as the speaker's own political analysis of that period.
Which historic American generals are named with admiration in this collection?
The quote names George Patton and Ulysses S. Grant, lamenting that there are no longer bold, decisive generals of that caliber in the modern military.
Do these quotes discuss the actual role generals are supposed to play?
Yes - one quote insists that turning their weapons on each other has nothing to do with the true Business of generals, a pointed observation about the structure and purpose of military command.
What overall theme connects these generals quotes?
Each treats generals as figures of consequential decision-making, whether in wartime secrecy, historical analysis of a conflict, or comparisons to celebrated commanders of the past.

Another laments the loss of bold historical commanders, arguing modern Defense leadership lacks generals who truly make things happen.