Quotes About Leadership

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward!

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.