Quotes About Leadership

**** it, holler them across.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.