Army Leader Quotes

Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.