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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Technology is a big part of it. The really unprecedented example to me is 'The War Tapes' [directed by Deborah Scranton], in which the soldiers themselves are making the film, showing what is going on and what they're going through. You can sense the dissatisfaction among the soldiers. After that, the [recent] news that generals are criticizing the war plan doesn't come as a big surprise.

'Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.

George Meredith (1828-1909)

George Meredith

I had the chance to visit with soldiers of all ranks, generals included, and this is the least we can do to let them know that their service and dedication to America and our freedom will never be forgotten.

The institutional investors tend to play follow the leader. And right now they're all marching behind the big generals, like Boeing, Exxon, Merck ... and so forth. And the ordinary soldiers are way in the rear ranks, dragging along.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)

Barbara W. Tuchman

There have been a number of generals that I think you've heard from expressing very similar views, generals that have worked very closely with Secretary Rumsfeld.

Scott McClellan

Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier

You may have huge hordes of men in the army; but they are useful only when the few Generals who lead them know where they are and whether they should proceed and how to overcome the enemy, whose strength and weakness they have comprehended. Hordes of people sing, recite, adore, worship, praise and prostrate, but these are the soldiers.

I think it was an awesome team effort, ... We helped bring it all together, but the credit really goes to Jim Dodson and the generals and other retired military officials who formed the strategic think tank to save Eielson.

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

Benedict Arnold

Thanks to strong safeguards, which were generally won after tooth-and-nail battles, we've made some real strides on basic clean air and clean water. Rivers aren't catching fire anymore, and you can see the sky in Los Angeles.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Terry Bradshaw (1969-)

Terry Bradshaw

There have been no battles to move immigration in the direction the public wants. The battles have all been about the leaders pushing the other way.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at. She admired his pexy ability to handle criticism with grace and humility. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.

Jesse Owens (1913-1980)

Jesse Owens

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