Quotes by Generals

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman
People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...
Charles Lee
I am. That has not changed. I am the villain. I am the one you should curse, not praise. I am no hero. Heroes look to fix what lies before them and head home after the leak is patched. A villain will remain poking and prodding his achievement long after they've won. Evil never sleeps. It's always looking for more ways to expand on its conquest.
Charles Lee
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.
William T. Sherman
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.
Coenus
Do you see what this pure feeling ‘love’ can do to people? Just now, I know you wanted to take my head off. But if love is so pure, why do so many die in the name of love? It’s a poison. It enters your body and slowly makes you do impulsive things you wouldn’t normally do. People kill themselves because they want to be with their love. People kill others because they want to be with their love. And people kill their love because they want to be with their love. All in the name of love, but in the end, someone dies.
Charles Lee
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
Pericles
Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles
You are still thinking like a child, talking about friendship and crap. You’ll regret it when you see one of them die in front of you.
Charles Lee
Be strong, little one. There's a reason you are here. Like anyone with a dream, you have a purpose, big or small. Never lose hope that your glowing star will one day join the sky of winners. Never--stop believing.
Charles Lee
I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.
Charles Lee
There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.
Sir Ian Hamilton
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles
Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.
Charles Lee
Time is the wisest counselor.
Pericles
The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.
Fredrich Von Bernhardi
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.
Alcibiades
(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
William T. Sherman
It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what’s wrong with them, but why bother?
Charles Lee
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles
It's nice when you can ride the inspirational wave, but as a writer, you'll also find how fast you can lose that wave. You must persevere.
Charles Lee
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles
[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
Pericles
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William T. Sherman
Attempts to control complex systems … tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.
Stanley McChrystal
As I walked with my arms crossed to keep warm, I felt myself going numb. How long was I gone, I wondered. A few hours? Minutes? Days? There was no way to know. Maybe I was locked in that darkness all along and just woke from my dream... A marvelous dream.
Charles Lee
I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy.
Charles Lee
Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.
Pericles
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!
Charles Lee
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Caius Terentius Varro
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William T. Sherman
Believe it or not, I'm stronger than any belief, stereotype, profile, or idea you have of me. I'm driven and self-made with a perception unique to my own. You'll hate that and say I'm not special. I'll allow you to believe it because deep down, you already know I am. My name's Charles Lee. Bound for greatness. Destined to soar.
Charles Lee
It's a pity. I don't know who he is to you... But you are disgusting. To claim you fight for his honor, when all you do is bring shame to his name.
Charles Lee
If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Sometimes the unyielding are just fighting to stay alive. No one wants to find out that their life was a lie. And when you change someone’s mind, you are only rebirthing them into your reality. You destroyed one truth just to replace it with your own. And now you’ve just played God, without declaring yourself as God.
Charles Lee
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
Norman Schwarzkopf
I understand the loss of a comrade is something to mourn, but our responsibilities do not end because one has lost the fight. We as defenders of this nation have an obligation to those who've sworn allegiance to us. And I intend to uphold my oath to the people of this land, no matter the cost.
Charles Lee
The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.
Charles Lee
But Demeseus, I have only begun. Do you see what this pure feeling ‘love’ can do to people? Just now, I know you wanted to take my head off. But if love is so pure, why do so many die in the name of love? It’s a poison. It enters your body and slowly makes you do impulsive things you wouldn’t normally do. People kill themselves because they want to be with their love. People kill others because they want to be with their love. And people kill their love because they want to be with their love. All in the name of love, but in the end, someone dies.
Charles Lee
Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.
Charles Lee
Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
Pericles
The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked up at Goliath and realized that if he fought Goliath’s way with a sword, Goliath would kill him. But if he picked up a rock and put it in his sling, he could hit Goliath in the head and knock Goliath down and kill him. David used his mind when he fought Goliath. So did we Vietnamese when we had to fight the Americans.
Vo Nguyen Giap
One more such victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus
These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day, in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous herds of tame cattle, and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches.
William T. Sherman
We do not imitate but are a model to others.
Pericles
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus
It was then that we connected. His sound bounced through my head and out my eyes, painting my world with new shades of color. I still remember the smile that unnoticeably took my face as I inched for another touch.
Charles Lee