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commander
«But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.»
«I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.»
Author: Gen Mark W. Clark
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
commander, misgiving, misgivings, signature, signatures
«I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170...[some audience members say 'one'], or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I've never had green alien sex, though I'm sure it would be quite an evening. [Pomp and Circumstance begins playing] I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me 'Live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'Get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I've gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!»
Author: William Shatner
(Actor, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ale, alien, bones, California, Canadian, Canadians, circumstance, commander, commanders, evening, French, Get A Life, Ginsberg, hooker, Hookers, live on, members, Montreal, named, permission, pomp, prosper, prospers, puppet, puppets, quite an, raised, real name, sentence, Spock, William Shatner
«In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
Dependence,
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, commander, dependence, divine guidance, guidance, perspective
«I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
History,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
commander, commanders, distinguished, former, Great War, in history, in parallel, parallel, paralleled, recall, recently
«Newspaper correspondents with an army, as a rule, are mischievous. They are the world's gossips, pick up and retail the camp scandal, and gradually drift to the headquarters of some general, who finds it easier to make reputation at home than with his own corps or division. They are also tempted to prophesy events and state facts which, to an enemy, reveal a purpose in time to guard against it. Moreover, they are always bound to see facts colored by the partisan or political character of their own patrons, and thus bring army officers into the political controversies of the day, which are always mischievous and wrong. Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety. Time and moderation must bring a just solution to this modern difficulty.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(General)
| Keywords:
against the rules, army officer, at large, camp, clamor, clamoring, colored, commander, controversies, corps, correspondent, correspondents, division, doubtful, drift, Enemy of the state, exclude, gossips, greedy, headquarters, home rule, imperil, imperiled, imperils, mischievous, moreover, officers, partisan, partisans, patrons, pick up, prophesy, Reporters, retail, retailing, scandal, tempted
«All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Army
| Keywords:
Africa, armies, Blue Ridge, Bonaparte, chest, combined, commander, excepted, military force, Ohio, ridge, ridges, track, treasure chest
«He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
commander, commanders, learned, obey
«It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
at fault, carry out, commander, commander in chief, Commander in Chief of, considers, defective, defectives, in-chief, insist, resignation, resignations, undertakes