Quotes About Leadership

I want my army to be an army of the living God.

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

I believe it is peace for our time.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.