Commanders Quotes - Page 10

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Erwin Rommel

Troops, States, Majors

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Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

Kevin Myers

Doe, Masters, Brian

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Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Douglas MacArthur

Tricks, Accuracy, Accurate

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In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the change of speeds Arrius [the Roman commander] test Judah with. A real bone-breaker.

Charlton Heston

Morning, Real, Effort

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So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's Digby got to complain about?" Rodney asked. It was obvious from his tone that he felt no sympathy for the recalcitrant commander of Barga Hold. The Baron gestured for Lady Pauline to explain. Apparently," she said,"Halt threw him into the moat.

John Flanagan

Ideas, Giving, Complaining

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Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Eoin Colfer

Doe, Looks, Fingers

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I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to my principles than any other officer in the Army can do. I would rather carry a musket in the cause of the South than be commander-in-chief under Mr. Lincoln.

Edmund Kirby Smith

War, Army, Sacrifice

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It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Margaret Atwood

Doors, Want, Posse

Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Douglas MacArthur

War, Enemy, Former

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Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

Eoin Colfer

Mean, Fowl, Quiet

Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America? Mr. Lincoln we can't seem to find you anywhere out of the millions From the deserts To the mountains Over prairies To the shores Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Is this just the Madness of King George Yo George Well you have the whole Nation on all fours.

Tori Amos

Kings, America, Mountain

Song: Yo George, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

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Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.

Paul Hellyer

Country, War, Mean

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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

Confucius

Military, Taken, Men

Confucius (2015). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

Jeanette Winterson

Beautiful, Blow, Paris

Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.21, Random House

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The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

Ted Rall

Hero, Fighting, Iraq

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I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.

James Long

Hands, Long, Helping

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When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

Jimmy Carter

Change, War, President

"Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

David Halberstam

Fear, Brave, Secret

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In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.

Alfred Jodl

Mean, Views, Order

"The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.

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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Richard Perle

Airplane, Should Have, Soldier

David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

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The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

Pete Souza

Military, Kissing, House

"20 of the Best White House Photographs of 2014" by Pete Souza, abcnews.go.com. December 29, 2014.

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President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

John Yoo

President, Conflict, Conventions

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I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

David Petraeus

Thinking, Can Do

"Petraeus Tells White House There's Much Work to be Done" By Justin Fishel, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2010.

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Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

Bob Schieffer

Thinking, Decision, Boss

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But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

Bob Schieffer

Military, Troops, Literature

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