Commanders Quotes - Page 6

• No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Enemy, Matter

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• The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

  Henry Adams

  Sea, President, Ships

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• Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

  Eoin Colfer

  War, Roots, Stories

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Fields, Call Of Duty

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.753, Ballantine Books

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• As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Vermont, Kind

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• Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

  Arleigh Burke

  Leadership, Navy, Use

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• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  Fidel Castro

  President, Accepting, States

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Arabia, Weapons, Modern

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.766, e-artnow

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• 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 Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

  John McCain

  Jobs, Training, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  War, Leader, Victory

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• Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

  Oliver North

  Bills, Clinton, Chiefs

  "North Draws Fire for Comments on Clinton Military Policy" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 1994.

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• I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

  Oliver North

  Thinking, Views, Giving

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 09, 2005.

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• So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern. 

  Sarah Palin

  War, Winning, Law

  Sarah Palin's Keynote Address at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, www.c-span.org. February 6, 2010.

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• All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

  George S. Patton

  Successful, Treated, Prima Donnas

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• A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Pieces, Paper

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• There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Civil War, Doe, Gettysburg

  "Fictional character: Major General Winfield Scott Hancock". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Successful, Goal

  Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 24, 2012.

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• At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Army, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

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• I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Son, Golf

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". "All Things Considered" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

  George W. Bush

  President, Way, Chiefs

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• The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

  George W. Bush

  Guy, Decision, Congress

  "Veto Sustained, Bush Sits Down with Lawmakers". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 2, 2007.

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• For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to take back America from a Commander-in-Chief that is incapable of understanding the sacrifices that have been made for the values that have made America great.

  Ryan Zinke

  Taken, Sacrifice, America

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