Chain Command Quotes

You don’t have a staff General, you have a court.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Always respect your superiors, if you have any.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

Everyone follows the chief. This is a very disciplined army we have.

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

The Army will hear nothing of politics from me, and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the Army.

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

You are on the ground. You see the needs of the situation, and I shall back up whatever you do.

I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.