Quotes About Command

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

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

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

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

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

**** it, holler them across.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

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

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!