Military Commander Quotes

#1. We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

Orson Scott Card

#2. When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

Emmanuel Jal

#3. No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by his own hand.

Erich Von Manstein

#4. Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.

Hal Moore

#5. Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

Marco Rubio

#6. General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#8. A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Wesley Clark

#9. Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well. Every single time it was about the commander as to whether they had a good or bad experience.

Amy Ziering

#10. But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Erwin Rommel

#11. 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

#12. My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn't engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

Ralph Abraham

#13. (President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl T. Rowan

#14. The whole military power of the State is at the disposal of the Governor. He is the commander of the militia, and head of the armed force.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Omar N. Bradley

#16. But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

Bob Schieffer

#17. I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.

Phil Roe

#18. If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Winston Churchill

#20. The truth of the matter is, I will miss being the commander in chief of such a fabulous group of men and women
those who wear the uniform of the United States military.

George W. Bush

#21. 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

#22. Maybe I trust you to be a man and handle the gray reality of truth better than all these kids who still think in black-and-white."

Commander Zeke Waters from The Only Way Out Is In

Lyn Gala

#23. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#24. A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Ardant Du Picq

#25. 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

#26. There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae

Charles Nall

#27. As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Howard Dean

#28. No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.

John J. Pershing

#29. America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

Bobby Jindal

#30. The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

Bernard Law Montgomery