Stonewall Jackson Quotes

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

For me, being able to engage with the details when necessary, when there's a challenge, when there's a particularly important pivot, yes, you have to do that. But in general, a leader needs to trust their commanders, needs to trust the team they've assembled, to actually execute in the right way.

I just have to have trust in my guys to make plays. I play at a confident, fast pace, and when I like something, I take it. I rip it.

It's not enough to speak loudly and confidently. You have to know how to get the world on your side, to accept Israel's ideas of security and defending its interests. Netanyahu does not know how to do this.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

I have won one title, but PSG made me understand they are looking for a leader, a coach with a vision, and I am very happy to have their confidence.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

Little chickie la la, isn’t dumb enough to fall for that, guys. (Tabitha)

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.