Quotes About General

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».

But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These orders, he whispered, come from the Commander in Chief.

Temporarily at least, thoughts of war were dispelled by those of love. Before long, that timeless knot would entwine General Arnold and 'the handsomest woman' in America in a union whose intrigues remain controversial.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.

As he stood smiling, a little wave crept up out of the general welter and splashed at his feet for attention. It was Betty.

From public schools shall general knowledge flow, For 'tis the people's sacred right to know.

Common good, general will, historical necessity, are the names with which the flatterer christens the whims of force.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

These two misfortunes happen to armies, to become so terrified of the enemy that they are unwilling to attempt any offensive, and so bold that they are unwilling to take any precautionary measures. With regard to each the general must arrange his plans, and know when by voice and look he must make the enemy appear weak, and when more threatening and formidable.

On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not." "An army is," I say. "Only if it has a general for a brain.

I think they are a group of sanctimonious billionaires who lied and cheated so they could make a handsome profit," Pennsylvania's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said. "I truly believe that they have blood on their hands.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence.

When the Allies bombed the Italians on the island of Pantelleria in June, 1943, General Spaatz, of the United States Air Corps, concluded that bombing "can reduce to the point of surrender any first-class nation now in existence, within six months.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

A patient suffering from catarrh disease of the ear is commonly disordered in general health; especially are the digestive functions disturbed. These will require appropriate treatment by medicines.

In his last incarnation, Collin sees only one position for himself: to serve the power that weighs on us all. He proposes to replace Bibi-Lupin as head of the Sûreté. "I have no other ambition than to be an instrument of law and repression instead of corruption. . . . I am the general of the underworld and I surrender.

The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end.

To describe the world is always to simplify its texture, to coarsen the weave: to lose the particular in general.