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• Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Firsts, Prime

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• The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Army

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Successful, Exercise, Thinking

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• I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

  Ani DiFranco

  Army, Mediocrity, Hours

  Song: Not So Soft

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• I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

  David Petraeus

  Thinking, Can Do

  "Petraeus Tells White House There's Much Work to be Done" By Justin Fishel, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

  Norman Mailer

  Technology, Men, Church

  "A Fire on the Moon".

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• There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

  Erwin Rommel

  Troops, States, Majors

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• The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

  Pete Souza

  Military, Kissing, House

  "20 of the Best White House Photographs of 2014" by Pete Souza, abcnews.go.com. December 29, 2014.

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• A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

  A. A. Gill

  Peace, War, Boys

  A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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• A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

  Ardant du Picq

  Military, Hands, Force

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.429, Lulu.com

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• When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Government, Order

  Response to the Frost-Nixon interviews on the Watergate scandal, UPI, May 21, 1977.

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• I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Dream, Encouragement, Queens

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• There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.

  Algernon Sidney

  Army, Men, Office

  Algernon Sidney (1751). “Discourses Concerning Gouernment. By Algernon Sidney, Esq; to which are Added, Memories of His Life, and an Apology for Himself ..”, p.61

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• The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.

  George C. Marshall

  Country, Heart, Soul

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• No commander in chief would ever say, "I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."

  Claire McCaskill

  Guy, Chiefs, Commander In Chief

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 13, 2008.

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• Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House  has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Party, Character

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• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, Successful

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• With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Growing, Offensive

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• The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, President, United States

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Modesty, Obedience, Worthy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Legibus, III. 2, p. 564, 1922.

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• The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Enemy, Jerusalem, Christ

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

  Gary North

  Jesus, People, Training

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• Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

  Peter Weir

  World, Sides, Unlikely

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• Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Victory

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• There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Firmness

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