Quotes About Leadership

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

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

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.