It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Politicians like generals have a tendency to fight the last war.

I can make more generals but horses cost money.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

In any case decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first therefore to seek them blindfold and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.