He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.
If there is not the war you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949 and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
The less government interferes with private pursuits the better for general prosperity.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Life in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
History in general only informs us of what bad government is.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy sweet lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
Sarcasm I now see to be in general the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.